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John Kerry acknowledged the mistake the United States in Libya

20 December 2015 04:50 (UTC +04:00)

President Obama has recognized the fallacy of some US actions in Libya as "America does not fully contributed to the formation of a legitimate government, after a military intervention," said Kerry, reports Tass.

The Secretary of State added that the US would support the new government in Libya is preparing to form a "Libyan elite on both sides ... based on the stabilization of the situation in the country and reducing tensions."

Earlier, US President Barack Obama also said the United States "bear some responsibility" for the fact that in Libya there was a "very bad situation."

Note that this week in Libya fighters of local armed groups have forced the US military to leave the country.

Since the overthrow and murder in 2011, during the armed conflict, the country's leader Muammar Gaddafi, Libya is undergoing a period of crisis, accompanied by the destruction of public and social institutions. The conflict, known as the Second Libyan civil war began in May last year. The factions that won the previous war 2011 years, divided based on the support of one of the nominal governments and parliaments.

The country still has a dual power. In the city of Tobruk based internationally recognized parliament - the House of Representatives, which is based on "the Libyan national army," Lieutenant-General Khalifa Haftorah. The country's capital, Tripoli, the other controls the parliament - the new General National Congress, which is fighting under the banner of a coalition of factions "Shield of Libya" associated with "Muslim Brotherhood." In the second largest city, Benghazi, independently of the Islamist "Shura Council" part of the territory controlled by anyone not obeying groups, and more exciting fighter "Islamic state", transforming the city occupied by them in another "province of the caliphate."