Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia to meet over Libyan crisis

The foreign ministers of Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia will meet in Algiers on 5 and 6 June to discuss and assess the situation in Libya, Algerian foreign ministry spokesperson, Abdelaziz Benali Chérif, announced today.

The meeting came in light of the recent developments on both the political and security levels in Libya.

“The upcoming meeting is part of continuous consultations between Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt over the crisis hitting Libya since 2011. Foreign ministers of the three nations are due to meet in Algiers to assess the political and security developments there,” Cherif added.

He pointed out that the ministers will assess the “peace efforts being made by Libyan warring parties, neighboring countries and the international community, in a bid to help the Libyan parties reach sustainable settlement of the crisis.”

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The trilateral talks coincide with the Egyptian army’s announcement last Friday about its air raids on suspected militant training camps in Libya.

The three North African countries have been long engaged in efforts to reach a political solution to the crisis in Libya. Last February, the Algerian, Egyptian and Tunisian foreign ministries agreed in a trilateral meeting on the terms for resolving the crisis in neighbouring Libya.

Libya has been suffering political division, insecurity and chaos since the 2011 uprising that toppled the country’s former leader Muammar Gaddafi.