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“UN Envoy Warns Libya on Brink of Turmoil”
by The Age   
September 16th, 2014

The top UN envoy in Libya is warning that rapidly deteriorating security and worsening political turmoil have brought the country to the "brink of protracted conflict and civil strife".

Bernardino Leon, who took over two weeks ago as the head of the UN mission in Libya, has told the Security Council that during his just-concluded first official visit to the country he stressed that only a political solution - not a military one - could solve the crisis.

The increasingly fractured country was plunged into chaos following the 2011 NATO-backed uprising that toppled longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

His ouster gave rise to a patchwork of heavily armed and increasingly unruly militias and deep political divisions that have split the country, with two rival parliaments and governments.

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