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Libyan Unity Government Hopes to Secure General Support, Avoid Bloodshed

© REUTERS / Ismail ZitounyMigrants receive medical treatment in a port, after being rescued at sea by Libyan coast guard, in Tripoli, Libya April 11, 2016
Migrants receive medical treatment in a port, after being rescued at sea by Libyan coast guard, in Tripoli, Libya April 11, 2016 - Sputnik International
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Libya’s Government of National Accord will try to secure general support, Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Maiteeg told Sputnik.

CAIRO (Sputnik) — Libya’s Government of National Accord will make every effort to secure general support after having successfully avoided bloodshed on its arrival in Tripoli, Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Maiteeg told Sputnik.

Italian Army soldiers stand by some of the twenty military vehicles during an handing over ceremony by Italy to Libya at a Libyan Navy Base on February 6, 2013 in Tripoli. - Sputnik International
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In March, the ministers of the UN-backed Presidential Council sailed into the Libyan capital from Tunisia, after the Tripoli-based Islamist-dominated General National Congress (GNC) agreed with the exiled parliament in Tobruk to form a unity government last December.

"We are continuing talks with all forces so that a parliament meeting should be called to express its confidence in the government," Maiteeg said. "We did not want clashes with any militant groups so we waited several months before going to Tripoli with a Libyan Navy convoy. We managed to avoid bloodshed."

The 2011 Arab Spring uprising created a political and security vacuum in Libya that was largely filled by Islamist militants. Members of the GNC, which controlled some of the armed formations, have joined the government’s advisory body, leaving militants unchecked.

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