If a national conference in chaos-stricken Libya next month fails to forge a roadmap for national elections, powerful eastern military commander Khalifa's Haftar's National Libyan Army militia will have no option but to enter Tripoli "to maintain security", a media report cited Tobruk-based parliament member Ali al-Takbali, as saying on Tuesday.
The Presidency of the Tobruk-based parliament of Libyan House of Representatives has called on its members to attend a session next Monday in the eastern city to discuss the "HoR position" on the national conference due to be held in the city of Ghadames in mid-April.
The move came after the UNSMIL mission's second-in-command, Stephanie Williams, announced that the Libyan conference will aim to hammer out a national charter and map out a route to parliamentary and presidential elections in Libya.
The upcoming national conference could adopt measures understood to have been agreed by UN-backed premier Fayze al-Sarraj and Haftar in the United Arab Emirates on 27 February, the Libyan Observer daily cited sources from Libya's Presidential Council as saying earlier in March. The measures allegedly include changes to the constitution and to the Presidential Council, which will contain a contain a 'collegiate command' from Libya's armed forces.
At the Abu Dhabi talks hosted by UN envoy to Libya Ghassan Salame, Sarraj and Haftar also agreed to end Libya's transitional period and hold national polls and on ways to maintain stability in the country and unify its institutions, UNSMIL stated after the meeting.
Libya has been in turmoil since the Nato-backed ouster of late dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, with rival administrations in Tripoli and in the east and a myriad of armed groups who are vying for control of the oil-rich country.
