At End of Summit African Union Calls for National Reconciliation Conference and Elections in Libya.

Addis Ababa, 12 February 2019(Lana) The African Union has called for a conference of national reconciliation in Libya, in a bid to find a solution to the ongoing crisis in the country, and to hold elections in October. The General Assembly has authorized the Head of the African Commission Musa Fiki to exert some effort 'to call for an international conference in Addis Ababa in July 2019 on reconciliation in Libya under the auspices of the African Union and the United Nations', a communiqué issued at the end of the AU Summit meeting here said. The General Assembly has demanded that the Commission 'take proper steps with the Libyan authorities to hold presidential and legislative elections in October 2019. =Lana=