SKHIRAT, Morocco
UN Special Envoy Bernardino Leon has said that peace talks between Libya's warring rivals in Morocco had been postponed to Thursday.
Addressing a Friday press conference in Morocco, Leon said the decision had been taken to give "time to all parties to prepare for the final stages" of talks.
"The [Tobruk-based] House of Representatives has decided to reinforce its team by adding new members and new advisers," Leon said.
"I hope all the parties will return for the final stages of these talks next Thursday," he added.
Earlier this week, the Tobruk-based parliament asked the UN mission to give it one week to discuss proposals – tabled during the first round of talks in Morocco – for a national unity government.
Libya's warring rivals held a round of indirect talks in Morocco last week in an effort to resolve the fractious North African country's ongoing political conflict.
Libya has remained in a state of turmoil since a bloody uprising ended the decades-long rule of strongman Muammar Gaddafi in late 2011.
Since then, the country's stark political divisions have yielded two rival seats of government, each with its own institutions and military capacities.
The Tobruk-based parliament vies for legislative authority with an Islamist-led parliament that convenes in capital Tripoli.
The two assemblies support two rival governments respectively headquartered in the two cities.
