Libya talks resume, U.N. plays down absence of a major player

The United Nations headquarters building is pictured though a window with the UN logo in the foreground in the Manhattan borough of New York August 15, 2014. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations opened a second round of political talks over Libya in Geneva on Monday and played down the absence of a key faction, saying only the site of the talks was a point of contention.

Four years after Muammar Gaddafi's fall, Libya has two rival governments -- one internationally recognised and the other set up by a faction that has taken over Tripoli -- who are locked in a conflict Western powers fear will slide into civil war.