Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt issue communique on resolving Libyan crisis

TUNIS, Feb 20 (KUNA) -- The foreign ministers of Tunisia and Algeria and Egypt, respectively Khamis Alaghinawa and Abdulqader Msahel and Sameh Shukri signed on Monday "Tunisia ministerial communique for political settlement in Libya" with aim of reaching conciliation among the warring parties in the troubled nation.
Minister Alaghniawa said at a news conference after a meeting that grouped the three minsters with Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi that the communique stipulates continuous bids to realize comprehensive conciliation in Libya without exempting any party.
The communique affirms adherence to sovereignty of the Libya State, the nation's territorial sanctity and political settlement as the sole avenue for resolving the Libyan crisis on the basis of the concord hammered out in the Moroccan town of Al-Sukhairat on December 17th, 2015.
The three ministers, according to the communique, agreed on rejecting any military solution to the crisis, external intervention in the Libyans' internal affairs stressing that the national dialogue must be restricted to the Libyans. Moreover, they pledged to safeguard the Libyan civil institutions.
Their resolutions will be submitted to their presidents as prelude to a tripartite summit due in the Algerian capital.
The communique was released at end of the tripartite meeting aimed at narrowing the gulf among the warring Libyan parties and resolving issues that obstructed the accord of Al-Sukhairat. (end) kj.rk