Summary Participants at the two-day talks included a range of groups and representatives of civil society.
TRIPOLI (AFP) - Delegates from Libya s rival parliaments on Wednesday held "indirect" talks aimed at ending months of instability in the violence-plagued country, the UN mission said.
United Nations Support Mission in Libya chief Bernardino Leon, who shuttled between the two teams, told a televised news conference the dialogue was "positive and constructive" and that talks would resume within days.
"Mr Leon shuttled all day between the two delegations who were in separate rooms, and he didn t manage to convene them around the same table," a participant said, asking not to be named.
The talks, the first of their kind involving Libya s internationally recognised government and its rival General National Congress (GNC), were held in the southern oasis town of Ghadames.
The United Nations had said a meeting in Libya would take place this week but without giving a venue, date or the participants, apparently for security reasons.
Libya, which is awash with weapons and armed factions following the toppling and death of dictator Moamer Kadhafi in 2011, has two rival governments and parliaments.
Rival militias are also battling for control of its cities and oil wealth.
A round of peace talks between warring factions in Geneva late last month ended in a "positive atmosphere," the UN has said.
Participants at the two-day talks included a range of groups and representatives of civil society, who stressed the need to fast-track dialogue on forming a unity government.
But the GNC, the outgoing parliament which resumed operations under the leadership of the Islamist Fajr Libya militia, boycotted the Geneva meeting, demanding it be held in Libya.
The GNC is based in Tripoli while the rival parliament has taken refuge in the far east of Libya near the border with Egypt.
