President Abdel Fattah El Sisi is in Palermo, Italy, for a two-day conference to discuss a UN-backed Libya stabilization plan, Ittihadiya said in a statement. Gen. Haftar Khalifa, the Egypt- and UAE-backed military commander who controls eastern Libya, also arrived in Palermo yesterday to attend the gathering, according to Reuters. This marks Haftar’s first official meeting with the Tripoli-based rival Prime Minister Fayez Al Sarraj since a Paris-hosted summit last May, in which the two agreed to hold national elections on December 10 administered by the UN. Last week, UN Envoy Ghassan Salame officially abandoned the planned elections in favour of this summit, which he said will center around the questions of economic reform and security.

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