Leon: Political Agreement Moving Towards Final Stage.

Tripoli, 23 August 2015)Lana) The Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya Bernardino Leon has affirmed that the Libyan political agreement was moving towards the final stage. 'We are moving towards the final stage, the last and the most difficult miles, Leon told a press conference in Cairo. But he said he was optimistic an agreement would be in place. He indicated that the first week of September would be the deadline for executing the agreement, and participants then would be prepared in the last two weeks of September to vote on candidates for the consensus government, which will coincide with the UN General Assembly Meeting on September 21. The UN Envoy said the major challenge was the formation of a national unity government in Libya, and we expect participants to come up with several names of candidates for the government, and in the meantime we are engaged in the work to finish off with the appendixes talks. There were two parallel talks, the political talks involving different groups, and we have the key players in the military field the Libyan Army, and the various militias in the country and all of them should be part of the solution, Leon said. =Lana=