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The U.N. Special Envoy to Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, and Chairman of the Presidential Council, Mohamed Al-Menfi, spoke on the phone on Sunday to discuss Presidential Council’s proposal to meet with the leaders of the House of Representatives and the High Council of State.

The co-chairs of the Security Working Group (SWG) for  Libya, represented by the African Union, France, Italy, Turkey, and the United Kingdom and the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) held a meeting on Thursday in Tunis to discuss the security situation in the country.

U.N. Special Envoy to Libya Abdoulaye Bathily held talks on Tuesday with Tunisian Foreign Minister Othman Jerandi to discuss “ways to encourage Libyan political and security actors to come together in Libya and agree on a way out of the crisis by holding elections as soon as possible,” according to the U.N. envoy.

The UN Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya has concluded its fifth investigative mission to the country, an extended field visit to Tripoli which took place from 20 October to 21 November, the mission announced in a statement released via Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).