TRIPOLI, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- Libya's UN-backed Prime Minister Fayez Serraj welcomed a conference on Libya to be held in Italian city of Palermo in November, the Libyan prime minister's information office said on Wednesday.
Serraj made his remarks during a phone call with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Tuesday who invited Serraj to attend the conference on November 12-13.
According to a statement issued by the office, the two officials discussed bilateral relations and means of developing cooperation between the two countries, as Conte expressed his country's full support for Serraj's efforts to achieve security and stability in Libya.
Despite signing a UN-sponsored peace agreement by the Libyan political parties in 2015, Libya remains politically divided between eastern and western governments, both competing for legitimacy.
France hosted in May a meeting on Libya with the participation of different Libyan parties to end the political crisis in the country.
The parties agreed to hold and commit themselves to "credible" presidential and parliamentary elections slated for Dec. 10.
