OREANDA-NEWS. Germany plans to hold an international conference to resolve the conflict in Libya on January 19. This was reported on Monday by Reuters. According to him, in particular, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will arrive in Berlin to participate in the conference.

On January 11, at a press conference following talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin called Germany's timely initiative to hold an international conference on Libya in Berlin. According to him, for this conference to "bring tangible results", it's necessary to ensure participation in it "really interested in helping the Libyan settlement of the states", and its decisions "must be agreed in the preliminary plan with the Libyan parties".

Earlier, the German authorities initiated international consultations on Libya with the participation of senior officials of several countries, including Russia, which was called the "Berlin Process". His stated goal was to support the efforts of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Libya, Hasan Salama.

The first consultations took place in Berlin on September 17. The meeting was attended by the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the Middle East and African countries, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, as well as representatives of the United Kingdom, Egypt, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, Turkey, France, the League of Arab States and the European Union.