RABAT
Libya's Tobruk-based parliament is ready to join a government of national unity with a view to ending the country's political crisis, a representative of the assembly at UN-backed peace talks in Morocco said Thursday
"We held a consultative meeting earlier in the day on some points on the talks' agenda and we agreed to support a proposal for the formation of a national unity government as a way out of the crisis," the representative, requesting anonymity, told The Anadolu Agency.
Meanwhile, a delegation from Libya's internationally-recognized House of Representatives arrived in the northern town of Skhirat, where talks are set to resume later Thursday.
According to the UN mission in Libya, all of Libya's warring parties agreed to resume talks following consultations with UN Special Representative Bernardino Leon.
Morocco backs political solution in Libya
Morocco said on Thursday that it supports a political solution for the crisis in Libya through the United Nations.
"We believe that the solution will come through dialogue," Communication Minister and government spokesman Mustapha Khalfi said.
"We reject Libya's division and anything that can threaten its unity and stability," he added at a press briefing in Moroccan capital Rabat.
Libya's warring rivals on Thursday started a new round of talks in Morocco, the fourth since the UN sponsored the talks months ago.
Khalfi said the UN has asked his country to host the dialogue with the aim of reaching a fair political solution to the crisis in Libya.
"This [holding the dialogue in Morocco] reflects the confidence all parties have in Morocco," Khalfi said, expressing hopes that the dialogue would produce positive results.
Libya has remained in a state of turmoil since a bloody uprising ended the decades-long rule of autocratic leader 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 capacity.
Vying for legislative authority are a Tobruk-based parliament and an Islamist-led parliament, the latter of which – even though its mandate ended last year – continues to convene in capital Tripoli.
The two assemblies support two rival governments respectively headquartered in Tobruk and Tripoli.
