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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Libya mediator said on Wednesday it was "difficult to be optimistic" a peace deal could be reached, but the aim was to try and broker agreement on a unity government before the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan starts in mid-June. The mediator, Bernardino Leon, briefed the U.N. Security Council on the conflict on Wednesday. "The international community would like to see an agreement in Libya before Ramadan," Leon told reporters. "Let me be very cautious about the possibilities for an agreement." Internationally recognized Prime Minister Abdullah al- Thinni, his government and the elected parliament have been confined to eastern Libya since a group called Libya Dawn seized Tripoli in August, set up its own administration and reinstated an assembly.

 

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