CAIRO, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- Egypt hosted over the past three days two delegations from the Libyan eastern region of Barqa and the northwestern port city of Misrata to outline a roadmap for inter-Libyan national reconciliation, the Egyptian army said in a statement on Thursday.
Led by Egypt's Chief of Staff Mahmoud Hegazy, the Egyptian Committee on Libya held separate talks with the two delegations, followed by joint talks with their representatives without preconditions, said military spokesman Tamer al-Refaay in the statement.
The participants agreed on a time-scheduled roadmap including mechanisms for future meetings "in order to achieve true reconciliation that enhances means of coexistence between Libyans, end the state of polarization and restore social unity in Libya," he added.
The discussions showed agreement among Libyan factions on maintaining Libya's unity and sovereignty, rejecting all forms of foreign interference in Libya's domestic affairs, fighting all kinds of terrorism and working on the establishment of a modern civil state based on peaceful power transition.
Libya has been engaged in a civil war since the 2011 ouster and death of former leader Muammar Gaddafi, which eventually divided the war-torn country into two governments, a UN-backed one in Tripoli and a parliament-backed, military-oriented one in Tobruk.
Tobruk's government was internationally recognized before the Presidential Council (PC) was established in 2015 to run a unity government in Tripoli as per a UN-brokered peace deal between Libyan factions reached in Skhirat, Morocco.
Supported by self-proclaimed Libyan national army led by Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar, the government in Tobruk refuses to recognize the Tripoli-based unity government known as the Government of National Accord (GNA).
Barqa region supports Haftar while Misrata city is regarded as a hub of military opposition to the Libyan military chief.
Hosting several meetings between Libyan rival factions as well as representatives of Libya's neighboring states, Egypt is keen on restoring security and stability to the war-torn neighboring country whose chaotic conditions pose a threat to the Egypt's western borders.
Egypt's Western Desert witnessed a terrorist attack that killed at least 21 soldiers in July 2014. Later in February 2015, IS militants released a video showing the beheading of 20 Egyptians near the Libyan chaotic city of Sirte.
Since May, the Egyptian air forces have destroyed at least 42 vehicles loaded with weapons, ammunition and explosives before they infiltrated into Egypt via its western borders with Libya.
The Egyptian leadership of President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi supports the self-proclaimed Libyan national army led by Haftar and the parliament-backed government in Tobruk.
More world attention has recently been drawn to Libya and France managed earlier in July to rarely bring face to face Libya's two main rivals Fayez al-Sarraj, head of Tripoli-based unity government, and military chief Haftar who is backed by Tobruk's government, for settlement talks.
