FRANKFURT- On Sunday, Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said that the foreign ministers of those countries looking to broker a Libya peace agreement are meeting again in mid-March.
A Jan 19th summit was agreed upon by the foreign powers in Berlin to shore up Libya’s shaky truce.
But rival factions failed to stick to ceasefire agreements and countries supporting either the eastern-based commander Khalifa Haftar or the internationally recognised government headed by Fayez al-Serraj did not stop supplying weapons.
“All foreign ministers present at the recent Libya conference in Berlin will meet again in mid-March,” Maas told German broadcaster ZDF.
It was important that the Libyan factions should meet “within the next few days”, he said.
A commission made up of military officials from each side, formed at the Berlin conference, failed to make a meeting that would have been held under United Nations auspices and was originally scheduled for last Wednesday.
Germany would work with the U.N. Security Council to craft a resolution so that countries breaking the U.N. weapons embargo would “have to expect consequences,” Maas said.
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