SKHIRAT, Morocco — The United Nations plans a new round of talks between Libya's warring factions next week in Geneva in an effort to form a unity government and end the country's crisis, a UN spokesman said on Friday. Western governments see a UN-backed peace deal as the only solution to chaos in Libya where two rival governments battle for control, leaving a security vacuum which has been exploited by migrant smugglers and militants. Months of negotiations have been stalled by hardliners on both sides and fighting among armed groups siding with the two loose factions that emerged four years after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi. In the latest delay, delegates from Tripoli's self-declared government dropped out of talks in Morocco this week, saying they needed a new negotiating team after a chief member resigned. But they said they would attend the next round with the rival internationally recognized government. — Reuters
