Italian Foreign Minister Paolo
Gentiloni on Wednesday welcomed the news that a Tripoli-based
administration, one of two rival governments in Libya, announced
that it was stepping down, while the General National Congress
(GNC) has decided to support the UN-backed national unity
government of Fayez Sarraj.
"The recent developments in Libya are encouraging,"
Gentiloni said.
The announcement that Tripoli's self-declared government
was stepping down was made less a week after the arrival in the
Libyan capital of Sarraj's executive.
Libya has been in chaos since Muammar Gaddafi's fall in
2011 and it had had two rival governments since 2014, one based
in Tripoli and another based in the eastern city of Tobruk.
"The developments go in the direction of recomposing the
institutional framework within the scope of the political
agreement signed at Skhirat, putting the aim of a united Libya
before the differences," Gentiloni said.
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