ROME (Sputnik) — The main aim of an upcoming international high-level meeting in Rome is to reach an agreement on Libya’s national unity, Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said Friday.
On Sunday, Gentiloni and his US counterpart John Kerry will co-chair talks to end the four-year civil war in Libya. The Middle Eastern country is currently divided between two rival governments — an internationally recognized one that is based in Tobruk, and the self-proclaimed government in the former capital of Tripoli.
"We aim to achieve the greatest possible agreement on a government of national unity. We hope to reach a maximum of, say, 90 percent [agreement]," Gentiloni told reporters on the sidelines of an international conference on Mediterranean issues in Rome.
According to the top diplomat, it is not in Libya’s strategic interests to resist reaching an agreement through political and diplomatic means.
A UN-brokered dialogue on national reconciliation in Libya has been going on for a year.
