The conference to fast track a new United Nation’s plan to stabilise Libya would begin in Italy on Monday.
The initiative to hold elections next month in the embattled North African country had failed.
Last week, U.N. Envoy, Ghassan Salame, officially abandoned a Western plan to hold national elections on Dec. 10 as way out of conflict that has raged in the oil producer since the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
Instead the United Nations, which has been trying to mediate for years, wants to hold first a national conference to reconcile a country divided between hundreds of rival armed groups, tribes, towns and regions.
Western powers that helped topple Gaddafi then left Libya to its chaos, letting militias and radical Islamist groups grow.
But worried about it turning into a source of instability on the shores of Europe, European powers have recently paid Libya more attention.
Diplomats hope the two-day meeting in the Sicilian…
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