Putin to attend Libya peace conference

“On January 19 Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Berlin to take part in the international conference on Libya,” the Kremlin said.

Earlier in the day, Russia's acting foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said preparations for the peace conference were nearly ready but lamented that the war-scarred country's rivals refused to speak to each other.But he underlined the huge tension between the heads of Libya's warring sides — Haftar in the east and the head of Tripoli's UN-recognised government, Fayez al-Sarraj.

“So far ties between them are very tense, they don't even want to be in the same room to say nothing of meeting each other,” Lavrov said. Earlier this week, the two men attended talks in Moscow but Haftar left without signing a permanent truce. Lavrov said it was important for both sides not to “repeat past mistakes” and put forward additional demands after the Berlin conference.

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