Tripoli Fighting Forces UN to Scrap Its Plan for Peace Meeting
- UN envoy says conference to be held when conditions allow
- Haftar has shown no indications of scaling back his offensive
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Fighting on the outskirts of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, forced the postponement of an international peace conference to reconcile feuding factions, in a major blow to UN efforts to heal rifts that are threatening to plunge the OPEC member back into civil war.
Ghassan Salame, the United Nations envoy who just weeks earlier had triumphantly announced that the meeting would be held on April 14, said it would now be delayed.