European Union and Arab League leaders on Monday declared their "full support" for UN special envoy to Libya Ghassan Salame's plan to unite chaos-hit Libya and oversee an electoral process starting in the Spring.
"We reaffirmed our commitment...and our full support... to the UN Special Representative for Libya," read the concluding remarks to the first-ever EU-Arab League summit held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
"We expressed our support for UN efforts and the implementation of the Libyan Political Agreement of 2015," the joint statement went on, referring to a UN brokered deal between Libya's rival factions that created the Tripoli-based UN-backed unity government.
"We called on all Libyans to engage in good faith in UN-led efforts aimed at bringing Libya’s democratic transition to a successful end and to refrain from any action that might escalate tensions, further jeopardise security and undermine the stabilisation process," said the statement.
"In this regard we support the UN Special Representative's action plan," the statement added.
The statement said EU and Arab League leaders had "constructive, serious and thorough discussions on Yemen during the two-day summit, as well as on crisis-hit Syria and Yemen.
The leaders also said they had agreed to further strengthen their cooperation on security, conflict resolution and socio-economic development and "to embark on a new era of cooperation and coordination".
The two regional organisations said they would hold summits regularly in future, with the venues to alternate between Arab and European states.
The next EU-Arab League summit will take place in Brussels in 2022, the statement concluded.
