UN Envoy to arrive in Tripoli to advance peace talks

Libyan News
The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General, Martin Kobler, will arrive in the eastern city of Tobruk on Thursday to have consultations with the speaker of the Tobruk-based parliament (HoR), according to well-informed sources.
Kobler will subsequently fly to the capital Tripoli the next day in order to hold a meeting with the Chairman of the General National Congress (GNC), Nuri Abu Sahmain.
A member of GNC’s political committee said that Mr. Abu Sahmain is expected to request further amendments on the UN-sponsored political agreement signed in Skhirat this month.
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