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The Tripoli-based General National Congress (GNC) has today launched an alternative ‘‘Libyan-Libyan’’ proposal to the UN-brokered Libyan Political Agreement and its Government of National Accord (GNA) signed in Morocco’s Skhirat on 17^th December.

Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) Prime Minister-designate Faiez Serraj met Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in Rome on Monday.

The House of Representatives (HoR) was forced to postpone its session today due to the lack of a quorum.

Today’s session was called by the majority group in the hope of voting in support of the UN-brokered Libyan Political Agreement (LPA) signed in the Moroccan city of Skhirat on 17^th December. The LPA is to lead to the formation of a Government of National Accord (GNA) to be led by Prime Minister-designate Faiez Al-Serraj.

The European Commission has announced that it has finalised a new assistance package for Libya worth a total of € 6.6 million – with € 100 million available once the Government of National Accord (GNA) is in place..

Members of the Misrata’s Council of Elders were in east Libyan town of Guba yesterday to build bridges with their counterparts from the region in support of the “Libya-Libya” Dialogue being pursued by the presidents of the both the General National Congress (GNC) and the House of Representatives (HoR).

Tripoli was the elephant that was very much not in the room when 24 municipal councils today signed up for the Government of National Accord at a Tunis ceremony hosted by UNSMIL chief Martin Kobler.

The continuing General National Congress in Tripoli and the government it appointed led by Khalifa Ghwell may be firmly opposed to the UN-brokered Libya Political Agreement (LPA) signed last week in Skhirat, as are also the militias who are the  real arbiters of power in the city (although a member of

Libya Herald Managing Editor met a number of House of Representatives (HoR) members in Tunis yesterday on their way back from signing the Libyan Political Agreement in Skhirat, Morocco.