Libya: Draft text over possible cease-fire on table

By Elena Teslova and Fatih Hafiz Mehmet

MOSCOW / ANKARA (AA) - Turkey’s foreign minister said Monday that a draft text on a possible cease-fire in Libya had emerged during talks in Moscow.

"We made out a draft text containing the modalities of a possible cease-fire," Mevlut Cavusoglu told a joint press briefing with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.

Cavusoglu said Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar had requested time until morning to consider the cease-fire deal.

Lavrov, for his part, said that Fayez al-Sarraj, the head of Libya’s UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA), had signed onto the document.

On Jan. 12, the warring sides in the Libyan conflict announced a cease-fire in response to a call by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

Since the ouster of late ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, two seats of power have emerged in Libya: one in eastern Libya supported mainly by Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, and the other in Tripoli, which enjoys UN and international recognition.