Libya urged to prepare for polls

Tripoli – France, Germany, Italy, the United States and Britain urged Libya on Thursday to start preparations to meet a December deadline for holding elections, which it is hoped will help the country exit a decade of crisis.

Libya’s interim government, which came into being in March through a UN-backed inter-Libyan dialogue, is mandated to lead the country to elections on 24 December, but formal preparations have not yet started.

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