Lyon Bernardina, UNSMIL’s Special Representative of the UN to Libya, announced on Sunday that a dialogue would take place on 29 September between the General National Congress in Tripoli and the elected parliament in Tobruk. UNSMIL’s communique states that the dialogue would take place within the framework of the legitimacy of elected institutions and the Constitutional Declaration. In other words, Bernardino tries to offer a formula that he hopes would be acceptable to both parties to the current stalemate. On one hand, the GNC in Tripoli should recognize the legitimacy of the parliament in Tobruk, while, on the other hand, the latter should submit to the provisions of the Constitutional Declaration that stipulates the procedure for power hand over from the GNC to the elected house of representatives. It is not sure that both parties would answer Bernardino’s dialogue invitation. On the ground, the Libyan Dawn forces (pro-GNC) managed to tighten their grip on Warshfena (pro-Hafter’s Libya Dignity), east of Tripoli, following clashes that left around 150 dead in Bir Al Ghanem near Gheriyan. Regionally, Algerian news reports tell of a meeting of the Algerian Security Council in order to review developments in Libya.

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