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Arab League hosts quartet meeting on Libya

Sunday, 19 March 2017 3:15 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 19 March 2017 3:15 AM ]

Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Abul-Gheit (C-R) talks at a joint press conference on Libya with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini (C-L), African Union special envoy to Libya Jakaya Kikwete (R), and UN envoy to Libya Martin Kobler (L), at the Arab League headquarters in the Egyptian capital Cairo on March 18, 2017. (Photo by AFP)

Mohamed Shalaby
Press TV,Cairo

A quartet of international groups has met at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo to discuss the volatile situation in Libya. The emergency meeting is held following days of clashes and heavy fighting between rival groups over two major oil ports. The conflict in Libya as well as the rising number of refugees leaving that country for Europe was on top of the agenda of discussions between Western and Arab diplomats. Press TV's Mohamed Shalaby reports from Cairo.

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