Both sides in the Libyan conflict are expected to address terms of a cease-fire agreement Tuesday during talks brokered by French President Emmanuel Macron, a document related to the meeting said.
Libya's prime minister, Fayez al-Serraj, and his rival, eastern commander Khalifa Haftar, are due to meet with Macron Tuesday afternoon, where they could sign a conditional cease-fire outlined in a draft statement.
Macron’s office cautioned that the document is a working draft and one of several drafts circulated prior to the meeting.
"We commit to a cease-fire and to refrain from any use of armed force for any purpose that does not strictly constitute counter-terrorism," the draft statement reads.
Along with the conditional cease-fire, the document commits both sides to holding an election “as soon as possible.”
The two sides previously held talks in Abu Dhabi in May, after going more than a-year-and-a-half without speaking, in hopes of ending the violence seen in Libya since former leader Moammar Gadhafi was deposed in 2011.
Up until this point, Haftar has rejected the authority of the U.N.-backed government. His forces have gained ground in the east of the country, with the support of Egypt and United Arab Emirates.
Western governments are pushing a U.N.-backed political agreement to unify the country under which Serraj's Tripoli-based government was installed.
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