Berlin: World leaders announced a new cease-fire on Sunday and pledged to respect an arms embargo in Libya, concluding a UN-sponsored summit that marked an eleventh-hour push by European nations to reengage in an intractable conflict they had long ignored. "I cannot stress enough the summit's conclusion that there is no military solution to the conflict in Libya," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a news conference on Sunday. He added that all participants had committed to refraining "from interference in the armed conflict or internal affairs of Libya." The statements followed six hours of talks held in Berlin on Sunday. German Chancellor Angela Merkel assembled presidents and representatives of five permanent members of the UN Security Council as well as seven other countries - many of them involved in fuelling Libya's civil war through repeated violations of an arms embargo.

Source: Libya Today January 20, 2020 00:33 UTC