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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Cairo - Khaled Mahmoud

US Mediates between Libya’s Parliament, High Council of State

The Libyan parliament meets in Tobruk on Tuesday. (Parliament's press office)

The Libyan Presidential Council sought US mediation to resolve the ongoing disputes between the Speaker of Libya’s House of Representatives (HoR), Aguila Saleh, and the Chairman of the High Council of State (HCS) Khalid al-Mishri.

The US and the international and local community fear an outbreak of a new armed conflict in Tripoli between militias loyal to the interim Government of National Unity (GNU), headed by Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah, and militias loyal to parliament-appointed Fathi Bashagha, who chairs the "stability" cabinet.

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