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Berlin to Host Libya Conference Sunday

Margaret Besheer

   UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. secretary-general will travel to Berlin to
   join the leaders of Britain, France and Germany and the U.S. secretary
   of state, among others, to try to begin a process to reconcile Libya's
   rival leaders. Internationally-recognized Prime Minister Fayez
   al-Serraj and renegade General Khalifa Haftar also have been invited to
   the summit.

   The meeting is hosted by Germany, but fits into a three-tiered effort
   by the U.N.'s top Libya diplomat, Ghassan Salame.

   His goal is to reinforce a tenuous cease-fire agreed upon this week
   between the rivals, with the support of interested nations in Berlin,
   and then use that momentum to restart an inclusive intra-Libyan
   dialogue.

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