"During the meeting, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques [the royal style used by the Saudi King] reaffirmed the kingdom’s interest in the security and stability of Libya", the office of the Saudi monarch said, as quoted by the SPA news agency.
Libya has been in a state of political and economic turmoil since 2011, when a civil war broke out following the overthrow of its longtime leader, Muammar Gaddafi. The eastern part of the crisis-torn state is governed by its parliament, with headquarters in the city of Tobruk. The parliament is backed by the Libyan National Army headed by Haftar. At the same time, the GNA, headed by Fayez Sarraj, operates in the country's west and is headquartered in Tripoli.
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However, Fayez Sarraj, the head of Libya's GNA backed by the United Nations, and Gen. Khalifa Haftar, agreed on the need to unify state institutions and hold nation-wide presidential and parliamentary elections by the end of this year, Sarraj's media adviser Hassan Houni told Sputnik earlier in March.
Hassan Huni has also told Sputnik that the GNA hopes that the country's national reconciliation conference, which is scheduled to take place in mid-April, will result in the consolidation of the armed forces and banking structures in the country.
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UN Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Ghassan Salame has said that the national reconciliation conference would be held on 14-16 April in the Libyan town of Gadamis.
