They’ve sent their draft back to their principals in Tripoli and Benghazi for approval.

If President Fayez al Sarraj of the Government of National Accord and Khalifa Haftar of the  Libyan National Army say OK to their delegates proposals, the Geneva meeting will be reconvened.

It would facilitate the safe return of hundreds of thousands of  civilians to their areas and stop Libya from sliding into a proxy war involving Turkey, Russia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates.

Military observers would be appointed and backed by the UN Mission in Libya.

The deal should also stop attacks on Tripoli by Haftar’s troops. 

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The European Union has condemned the attack and called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.

Khalifa Haftar’s so-called Libyan National Army launched a drone strike on a migrant centre in Tripoli in June that killed at least 44 people.

Yesterday’s target appears to have been a meeting of more than 200 local dignitaries in the  southern city of Marzuq.

Local authorities have appealed for humanitarian aid, saying the hospital is unable to cope with the more than 60 seriously injured people.

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi is being urged to withdraw his support for Haftar. 

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The rebel Libyan National Army denies it mountain the airstrike that wounded more than70 people.

The dead migrants were housed in a hangar on the outskirts of the capital that also the site of military camps billeting troops loyal to the United-Nations-backed government of national unity.

Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army is trying to seize Tripoli.

Last week it kidnapped Turkish sailors supporting the national government but released when Turkey threatened military retaliation.

The attack highlights to plight of African migrants returned to Libya after unsuccessfully trying to escape fighting and poverty in Africa by crossing the Mediterranean into Europe

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United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has joined Western and Arab powers in calling for peace.

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UN boss Antonio Guterres was in Tripoli visiting the UN-backed Prime Minister Fayes Al Serraj when the so called Libyan National Army started its advance on Tripoli.

Guterres appealed for calm

“There is no military solution anywhere in the world and certainly not military solution in Libya,” he said.

His appeal was echoed by the United States, Britain, France, Italy and the United Arab Emirates.

Libya is  virtually ungovernable because of violence following the 2011 fall of Muammar Gadaffi.

The UN-backed government in Tripoli is held hostage by the Benghazi-based rebels in east of the country 

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