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Libya accord ‘essential step’ toward national reconciliation: Macron

PARIS, May 29, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – The agreement reached Tuesday by four
senior Libyan leaders to hold elections in December is “an essential step
toward reconciliation” in the war-torn country, President Emmanuel Macron
said.

The gathering of the rival leaders at a peace conference at the Elysee
Palace in Paris was “a historic meeting” that had the support of “the entire
international community”, he said at a press conference.

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