Gassane Salame. Fayez Serraj Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/gassane-salame-fayez-serraj/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 25 Jul 2017 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Gassane Salame. Fayez Serraj Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/gassane-salame-fayez-serraj/ 32 32 Libyan leaders agree to ceasefire at French-brokered talks https://jjcornish.com/2017/07/libyan-leaders-agree-ceasefire-french-brokered-talks/ Tue, 25 Jul 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/07/libyan-leaders-agree-ceasefire-french-brokered-talks/ In a deal brokered by French President Emmanuel Macron, two rival Libyan leaders have committed themselves to a ceasefire and working toward presidential and parliamentary elections. They also agreed to find a roadmap to secure lawless Libya against terrorism and trafficking of all kinds The meetings at a chateau in La Celle Saint-Cloud, west of […]

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]]> In a deal brokered by French President Emmanuel Macron, two rival Libyan leaders have committed themselves to a ceasefire and working toward presidential and parliamentary elections.

They also agreed to find a roadmap to secure lawless Libya against terrorism and trafficking of all kinds

The meetings at a chateau in La Celle Saint-Cloud, west of Paris, brought together Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Serraj and General Khalifa Hifter, commander of Libya’s self-styled national army.

Macron met separately with each ahead of an encounter between the two Libyans in the presence of U.N.’s newly appointed special envoy for Libya, Ghassan Salame.

The 10-point joint declaration that capped the talks was the first of its kind between the rivals.

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