The Speaker of the Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR) Aqilah Saleh has sent a delegation days ago to negotiate with Derna Shura Council, Mohammed Edriss Al-Mansouri, a media official at the council, reported. On Facebook, Al-Mansouri added that the delegation met with some of the Derna Shura Council officials in Karsa town, 20 km away from the city, and informed them about Saleh's intent to end the military conflict between the council's fighters and the forces of Dignity Operation, led by Khalifa Haftar. "Saleh's put on the table, via his delegation, no preconditions and agreed to leave the Derna Shura Council's fighters armed and in its positions to protect Derna, without clashing with Haftar's forces." Al-Mansouri also said that as a good gesture, the council conditioned the kick off of the negotiation with the delegation to the release of the Derna residents who are arrested based on their IDs by Dignity Operation forces. Derna has been plagued by a siege that has been weighing on the city heavily for months by the so-called Omar Al-Mukhtar Operation Room of Dignity Operation.

Source: Libya Observer April 02, 2017 21:33 UTC