Congolese Foreign Minister Jean-Claude Gakosso told AFP by phone that the tasks of the AU mission include “information-gathering, assessment and reconciliation in the process that is supposed to lead to the presidential elections scheduled for the end of the year.”“.
According to the same source, the delegation will meet with senior political and religious officials and active personalities in Tripoli, Benghazi, Tobruk and Misurata..
“We look forward to meeting the Libyans in the diaspora in Cairo and Tunisia,” where the 12-person mission arrived, the minister added..
He explained that the mission will return to Brazzaville to brief Sassou Nguesso, who will participate in a summit on Libya organized by France on November 12..
The Libyan authority, represented by Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dabaiba, the President of the Presidential Council, Muhammad al-Manfi and his two deputies, is expected to end the political division and supervise the transitional phase until the elections scheduled for December 24.
However, the differences over the legal and constitutional criteria for this entitlement shed light on the extent of the division in the country.
Oil-rich Libya has been mired in chaos since the fall of the regime of leader Muammar Gaddafi and his death in 2011 following a popular uprising supported militarily by NATO.
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