The United Nations announced on Thursday that the presidents of Libya's two rival chambers will meet next week in Geneva to try to reach an agreement on a constitutional framework for holding elections. "I am pleased to confirm that House of Representatives Speaker Aguila Saleh and High State Council Speaker Khaled el-Mechri have accepted my invitation to meet at the UN offices in Geneva on 28-29 June to discuss the draft constitutional framework for elections," the UN secretary-general's special adviser on Libya, Stephanie Williams, said on Twitter. The mandate of the Tripoli-based government, led by businessman Abdelhamid Dbeibah, theoretically expired on Wednesday under the UN-brokered deal. Rival Prime Minister Fathi Bachagha said in a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday that it was now up to him to "take charge of all efforts to organise elections in Libya as soon as possible". Libya has been plunged into chaos since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi's regime in 2011.

Source: Libya Today June 23, 2022 17:23 UTC