TRIPOLI, May 20 (Xinhua) -- As many as 44 members of the Libyan east-based House of Representatives (parliament) on Monday demanded the parliament to withdraw from the UN-sponsored political agreement signed in 2015.
"At this crucial stage of the developments of the situation in our country, and based on the conspiring of the Presidential Council of the Government of National Accord with the forces of terrorism, we declare rejection to the Skhirat Agreement and all the resulting bodies and structures," the members said in a statement.
"We demand the House of Representatives to take an official position by announcing withdrawal from the political agreement and stand by the armed forces in the fight against terrorism, in preparation for establishment of the civil state we all aspire to," the statement added.
In December 2015, a UN-sponsored agreement was signed by the Libyan rival parties in Morocco's Skhirat with the aim of ending the country's political division. However, Libya remains politically divided between eastern and western governments despite the signed agreement.
The east-based army, led by Khalifa Haftar, has been leading a military campaign since early April to take over Tripoli from the UN-backed government.
The World Health Organization said that the fighting so far has killed 454 people, injured 2,154 others, and displaced nearly 60,000 civilians.
Libya has been suffering escalating violence and political instability ever since the fall of late leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
