Libya's PM, eastern commander set to commit to ceasefire, election - French draft


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  • Tuesday, 25 Jul 2017

FILE PHOTO: General Khalifa Haftar, commander in the Libyan National Army (LNA), gets into a car as he leaves after a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, Russia, November 29, 2016. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo

CELLE-SAINT-CLOUD, France (Reuters) - The French presidency hopes Libya's Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj and the divided country's eastern commander Khalifa Haftar will on Tuesday agree on a conditional ceasefire and to work towards elections, according to draft statement it mistakenly sent.

The two men are due to meet President Emmanuel Macron in the afternoon.

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