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China, Tunisia call for new efforts to negotiated peace in Libya

The Foreign Ministers of China and Tunisia today called for new efforts to reach a negotiated peace in Libya and prevent the unstable North African nation from dissolving into a humanitarian disaster on a level with Syria. <br/><br/>China's Wang Yi said Libya is attracting militants from across the globe now being driven from Iraq and Syria, requiring the international community to step in and prevent the country becoming a new source of international terrorism.<br/><br/>Tunisia's Khemaies Jhinaoui, whose country borders Libya, said a political rather than military solution is needed based on a 2015 United Nations-brokered peace deal.

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