Tripoli: The United Nations welcomed the announcement of a ceasefire and a cessation of military operations by the parties in Libya.
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), in a statement on Sunday, welcomed the truce and urged the warring parties "to strictly abide by the ceasefire and make a room for peaceful efforts to address all disputes through a Libyan-Libyan dialogue".
The UN mission expressed its full readiness to support the Libyans and to use all its capabilities to assist them in finding a peaceful and final solution to the Libyan crisis.
Turkish Presidents Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian Vladimir Putin, in a joint statement after their meeting in Istanbul last Wednesday, called for a ceasefire in Libya that starts at midnight on Sunday.
The internationally-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA), the Supreme State Council (representative adviser) and the Libyan Parliament in the capital Tripoli announced their welcome to the call for a ceasefire and the search for a diplomatic solution to end the crisis.
In a statement yesterday, Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavussoglu, that his country is looking that Russia persuade retired Major General Khalifa Haftar, to cease fire in Libya under the agreement of Presidents Erdogan and Putin.
The forces belonging to the retired Major General Khalifa Haftar launched on April 4 an attack to control Tripoli. The escalation of the battles raised recently with the announcement of Haftar on last December 12 to launch a new attack on the Libyan capital.
