During a first round of UN-mediated discussions in the Swiss city earlier this month, warring factions from the strife-torn country agreed on a roadmap to form a unity government.
The UN's envoy to Libya, Bernardino Leon, had warned as the talks first opened on January 14th that they were a last-ditch effort to prevent all-out chaos.
He warned that Libya was becoming a hotbed of Islamist insurgency, echoing concerns by Libyan officials and world leaders.
The north African nation has been wracked by conflict since the overthrow of dictator Moamar Kadhafi in a 2011 uprising, with rival governments and powerful militias battling for control of key cities and the country's vast
oil riches.
Talks continued Monday with participants from a range of groups and representatives of civil society.
But the Islamist-backed Fajr Libya (Libya Dawn) militia alliance, which took over Tripoli last summer, was not officially taking part.
However, it did declare a ceasefire with Libya's army following the January 15th agreement, and some of the group's high-level officials from cities beyond the capital, including Misrata, were in Geneva for the negotiations.
Ahead of Monday's talks, The UN's Libya mission UNSMIL appealed to all sides "to approach these talks… in a spirit of openness and reconciliation that is guided by the higher national interest of the Libyan people."
In addition to the main political track resuming Monday, the UN said another meeting would be taking place in Geneva later in the week bringing together municipal and local council representatives from cities and towns across Libya to discuss "confidence building measures and ways to implement them."
UNSMIL said it also planned to convene a number of other tracks at a later stage.
"These will include representatives from Libyan political parties, social and tribal forces, as well as the armed groups," it said in a statement.
The internationally-recognized government and elected parliament decamped last summer to the country's far east after Fajr Libya seized Tripoli and set up its own administration.
The first round of talks appear to have done little to calm the situation on the ground.
On Sunday, gunmen disguised as security forces kidnapped a Libyan deputy foreign minister from his hotel room in the eastern city of Al-Baida, where the recognized government is based.
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Libya talks struggle to build on unity deal
A new round of peace talks between Libya's warring factions resumed in Geneva on Monday as the country continued to struggle with divisions.
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‘The war must end now’: UN Sec-Gen meets Swedish PM in Stockholm
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres met Sweden's Prime Minister in Stockholm on Wednesday, ahead of the conference marking the 50th anniversary of the city's historic environment summit .
After a bilateral meeting with Magdalena Andersson on the security situation in Europe, Guterres warned that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could lead to a global food crisis that would hurt some of the world’s most vulnerable people.
“It is causing immense suffering, destruction and devastation of the country. But it also inflames a three-dimensional global crisis in food, energy and finance that is pummelling the most vulnerable people, countries and economies,” the Portuguese diplomat told a joint press conference with Andersson.
He stressed the need for “quick and decisive action to ensure a steady flow of food and energy,” including “lifting export restrictions, allocating surpluses and reserves to vulnerable populations and addressing food price increases to calm market volatility.”
Between the two, Russia and Ukraine produce around 30 percent of the global wheat supply.
Guterres was in Stockholm to take part in the Stockholm 50+ conference, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment.
The conference, which was held on the suggestion of the Swedish government in 1972 was the first UN meeting to discuss human impacts on the global environment, and led to the establishment of the UN Environment Program (UNEP).
At the joint press conference, Andersson said that discussions continued between Sweden and Turkey over the country’s continuing opposition to Sweden’s application to join the Nato security alliance.
“We have held discussions with Turkey and I’m looking forward to continuing the constructive meetings with Turkey in the near future,” she said, while refusing to go into detail on Turkey’s demands.
“We are going to take the demands which have been made of Sweden directly with them, and the same goes for any misunderstandings which have arisen,” she said.
At the press conference, Guterres condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine as “a violation of its territorial integrity and a violation of the UN Charter”.
“The war must end now,” he said.
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