Italy wants to organise a
conference on Libya in Sicily in the first half of November,
Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi said Wednesday.
Briefing the parliamentary foreign affairs committees on
Libya, he said Rome wanted to set up the conference there
"symbolically", in a "land that means to symbolise the hand
outstretched over the Mediterranean".
Sicily has been one of the two suggested locations for the
conference, along with Rome.
The conference will be organised according to the "Rome
format", including not only the various actors on the Libyan
scene but also European countries, neighbouring countries, the
EU, the African Union, the Arab League and the UN, Moavero said.
"The November date is situated ahead of the month of December
identified as the month of the elections," he said, reiterating
that elections must take place in ways and timeframes decided by
the Libyans.
Italy is at the forefront of international efforts to bring
peace and stability to Libya in the wake of recent militia
attacks on the UN-backed government in Tripoli.
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