Towards lasting peace in Libya?

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The Amazigh flag of the Berbers with the flags of the Libyan state, on February 14 to celebrate the 10 years of the Libyan revolution in Tripoli.

AFP - MAHMUD TURKIA

By: Romain Auzouy

21 mins

More and more voices are rising in Europe to support the new government in Libya.

The latest, the President of the European Council Charles Michel who announced, Sunday April 4, the return in the coming weeks of the Ambassador of the European Union to Tripoli.

The French embassy in the Libyan capital has just reopened and other European representations are due to do the same in the coming weeks.

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Why this "diplomatic euphoria" with regard to a country in the grip of chaos since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011?

Because the new executive put in place at the beginning of the year under the aegis of the UN is a bearer of hope.

Will he manage to reconcile the two parties who have ruled Libya in recent years?

What are the threats to peace?

What attitude of the international community?

With our guest 

Jalel 

Harchaoui

senior researcher specializing in Libya for the NGO Global Initiative. 

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