TRIPOLI: The UN mission in Libya has urged leaders to stick to the December 24 timeline for presidential and legislative polls it hopes will help stabilise the war-battered nation.
Libya has been struggling to move past the violence that has wracked the oil-rich nation since a 2011 NATO-backed uprising toppled and killed dictator Moamer Kadhafi, with political wrangling over the date of the polls the latest stumbling block.
A ceasefire between eastern and western factions last year led to a fragile unity government taking office in March, with a mandate to take the country to elections.
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