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Rival Libyan leaders Fayez Al Sarraj and Khalifa Haftar held their first direct talks <\/strong>in Abu Dhabi<\/strong> as diplomatic efforts to end six years of violence in the North African nation intensify, The FT<\/a> reports. The talks reached a \u201csignificant breakthrough,\u201d the UAE said, without providing details. \u201cEgypt and the UAE have been spearheading regional efforts to mediate between rival authorities in eastern and western Libya\u201d and one Western diplomat reportedly said the meeting was \u201can important political signal.\u201d Sputnik<\/a> says \u201csources close to Haftar have suggested that the meeting was cordial and positive\u2026 The latest meetings between the two men could be a significant step toward ending the stalemate that has crippled Libya's ability to unify following the 2011 revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rival Libyan leaders Fayez Al Sarraj and Khalifa Haftar held their first direct talks in Abu Dhabi as diplomatic efforts to end six years of violence in the North African nation intensify, The FT reports. The talks reached a \u201csignificant breakthrough,\u201d the UAE said, without providing details. \u201cEgypt and the UAE have been spearheading regional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9285],"tags":[2398,72],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-647212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diplomacy-foreign-trade","tag-diplomacy-foreign-trade","tag-enterpriseam","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"01950c19-a478-411e-9728-72efd61febf9","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"section_story_id":"dd2b0c32-d054-46a2-968a-23d4859afc27","story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[647178],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nRival Libyan leaders hold first direct talks in UAE - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/05\/04\/rival-libyan-leaders-hold-first-direct-talks-in-uae\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rival Libyan leaders hold first direct talks in UAE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rival Libyan leaders Fayez Al Sarraj and Khalifa Haftar held their first direct talks in Abu Dhabi as diplomatic efforts to end six years of violence in the North African nation intensify, The FT reports. 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