This is a success for French President Emmanuel Macron’s mediation efforts.

United Nations envoy to Libya Ghassan Salame praises what he calls yesterday’s historic meeting in Paris. At a news conference announcing agreement on a roadmap to elections he says they’re not speaking in place of the Libyans. It’s the Libyans who agree all together in their presence. This is crucial.

Salame maintains  he has never seen such convergence between the Libyan popular will and the international will.

Some 20 countries and several international organizations attended the conference, which was hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron.

Salame says setting a constitutional basis for the parliamentary and presidential elections will require either a constitutional referendum or passage of an electoral law.

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