Libya Crisis: Government Ready For Conditional Eid Truce - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 10, 2019
The Libyan government says it iswilling to accept a truce in fighting around Tripoli for the Muslim festival ofEid al-Adha that starts Sunday but on four conditions.
The United Nations, UN had called onthe UN-recognised Government of National Accord and forces of strongman KhalifaHaftar to commit to a humanitarian truce by midnight on Friday.
The Government of National Accordsaid it was keen to ease the suffering of the citizens and allow rescue workersto accomplish their mission. It said it accepted a humanitarian truce for Eidal-Adha, which will be celebrated in Libya on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
It said the ceasefire must beobserved in all combat zones, with a cessation of direct and indirect fire andmovement of troops. It said the truce must include a ban on flights andreconnaissance over flights across the entire Libyan airspace as well as a haltto flights from airbases”.
UN Envoy Ghassan Salame has alreadycalled several times for humanitarian truces, without success.