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                      Libya Peace Talks Resume in Morocco

   by VOA News

   United Nations-led peace talks for Libya entered their second day
   Friday in Morocco, the official Moroccan news agency reported, a day
   after the U.N. envoy to Libya said he believes an agreement is
   possible.

   "There is a sense of, if it's not optimism, at least a sense that it is
   possible to make a deal," Bernardino Leon told reporters Thursday. "And
   that is something very important because in the last months, this was
   not the case."

   Leon and U.N. mediators met separately Thursday with delegates from the
   Libyan government and Islamic extremists who have taken over the
   capital, Tripoli, and set up a separate administration.

   U.N. officials hope to get the two rival governments talking to each
   other. In three previous rounds of talks, the two sides did not meet
   face to face.

   Libya has been increasingly unstable since longtime dictator Moammar
   Gadhafi was overthrown and killed in 2011. Fighting escalated in August
   when the elected government and parliament were forced to relocate
   outside Tripoli.

   Libya's lucrative oil facilities have been a prize for both sides. The
   state-run oil company, citing security problems, stopped production at
   11 oil fields after the militants seized two major fields earlier this
   week.

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