Despite the fact that UNSMIL’s press release was clear in saying that the national dialogue meeting, which took place Monday in Ghadames, was a preliminary one aimed at confidence-building measures (an immediate cease-fire), the news reports were quick to reach the premature conclusion that an agreement for a cease-fire was reached in Ghadames. This prompted the Libyan Dawn Operations Room in Tripoli to announce that they were not consulted on the matter and that as far as they were concerned there was no such agreement. UNSMIL’s conference in fact convened 22 parliamentarians representing the two main warring factions (Libyan Dawn in Tripoli and Hafter’s Libyan Dignity in Tobruk). Sources close to the GNC in Tripoli said that Mr. Leon Bernardino, UNSMIL envoy, should have invited those who control the situation on the ground i.e. members of the GNC or Omar Al Hassi government, rather than parliamentarians who, although they have boycotted Tobruk’s parliament, do not talk on behalf of the masters of Tripoli at the present. While a second round of the UNSMIL dialogue is scheduled for after the Eid Al Adha celebration, Algiers said that it is preparing to convene, in October, an inclusive Libyan dialogue that would be limited to the Tobruk’s representatives, and not include Qaddafi era figures. Rachad Ghanouchi confirmed in an interview with a Lebanese newspaper that he had conducted a number of consultation meetings with the different actors and stakeholders of the Libyan crisis in order to bring them to the Algiers dialogue.
http://www.libyaherald.com/2014/09/29/ghadames-confererence-calls
http://www.aps.dz/algerie/11725
