UN-brokered talks on Libya elections resume in Cairo

By SAMY MAGDY
Associated Press

CAIRO (AP) — Libyan officials have returned to the Egyptian capital for a third round of talks on constitutional amendments for elections. The North African nation once again finds itself at a political impasse with two rival administrations claiming legitimacy. The talks Sunday in Cairo come on the heels of clashes between rival militias that caused residents of the Libyan capital of Tripoli to flee. They revived nightmares of previous bouts of fighting in the chaos-stricken nation. Lawmakers from Libya’s east-based parliament and the High Council of State, an advisory body from western Libya, began the U.N.-brokered negotiations amid concerted international pressure on the two chambers to put their disputes aside and agree on the election’s legal basis.