It says much about Libya's faltering A peace talks that the country's rival political factions negotiated face to face for the first time only in June, nine months after a UN-brokered process began. Till then diplomats had shuttled between the camp siding with the internationally-recognised government in the eastern city of Beida, and the loose alliance supporting the self-declared government in Tripoli, the capital, in the west. Bernardino Leon, the UN's envoy to Libya, has already torn up four drafts of an agreement.
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