Sources from the United Nations have disclosed that the Head of UNSMIL Ghassan Salame has travelled to Cairo today.
The sources told Al-Ittihad newspaper that on Sunday, Salame will meet the Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry to discuss ways possible for pushing for a ceasefire in Libya.
Salame has been trying to gather a regional and international basis for a political solution in Libya amid the ongoing conflict.
Reliable identical sources have said recently that there have been some efforts being done behind the scenes, aiming at convening an international conference to resolve the Libyan crisis under the auspices of the UN.
Al-Ittihad newspaper also reported Libyan diplomatic sources as saying that the German capital, Berlin, could be the host of an upcoming international conference on Libya.
This idea came after the German Chancellor Angela Merkel had proposed holding a conference on Libya in Berlin to the UN envoy Salame.
The hosting city of such a conference was limited to two countries: France and Germany, with the latter being likely to host the conference as diplomatic sources say Germany is more neutral in the ongoing conflict in Libya and unbiased in dealing with conflicting parties.
This proposal is in line with Salame’s initiative proposed at his latest briefing at the Security Council, where he proposed a truce and then an international conference with the presence of international and regional stakeholders, followed by a inter-Libyan conference gathering all warring parties and other entities in the country without any exclusions.
Recently, several international stakeholders have expressed interest in resolving the crisis in Libya through political solutions, reiterating rejection to military ones.
This became louder and clearer after the Group of Seven (G7) had called in its summit in France for an international conference on Libya, stressing the need for the participation of regional and neighbouring countries.
