TRIPOLI, May 29 (Xinhua) -- UN envoy to Libya Ghassan Salame on Tuesday welcomed a meeting held in France's Paris on Libya, which gathered the Libyan political parties and discussed solutions to the current Libyan political crisis.
The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said in a statement that Salame, the special representative of the UN secretary general and head of the UNSMIL, "thanks France and the international community for their efforts and commitment to support Libya towards unity and stability."
During the Paris meeting, Salame called on Libyans to collect efforts for the transition to "stable, legitimate and permanent institutions" in Libya.
The rival Libyan factions also agreed at the meeting to hold "credible" presidential and parliamentary elections on Dec. 10, according to a communique issued after the one-day conference.
In a joint statement, the UN-backed Prime Minister Fayez Serraj, head of the Libyan High Council of State Khalid al-Meshri, the eastern-based Parliament Speaker Agila Saleh, and the eastern-based army commander Khalifa Haftar pledged "to work constructively with the UN to hold credible and peaceful elections and to respect election results."
The North African country has been struggling for seven years to make a democratic transition. It suffers a political division with two rival parliaments and governments battling to legitimacy.
Ghassan Salame proposed an action plan in September 2017 to end the Libya political crisis, which includes holding presidential and parliamentary elections before the end of 2018.