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Libyan negotiators head home to consult over proposals made in Morocco peace talks

Associated Press
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    Cars take various delegates from the Palais des congress in the coastal town of Skhirate 30 km south of Rabat, Morocco, Friday, March 6, 2015. The UN-recognized government in the eastern city of Tobruk and the Libyan General National Congress, a rival legally-installed government in the capital, Tripoli, met separately with the United Nations mediators UN Special Envoy to Libya Bernardino Leon. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar) (The Associated Press)

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    Cars take various delegates from the Palais des congress in the coastal town of Skhirate 30 km south of Rabat, Morocco, Friday, March 6, 2015. The UN-recognized government in the eastern city of Tobruk and the Libyan General National Congress, a rival legally-installed government in the capital, Tripoli, met separately with the United Nations mediators UN Special Envoy to Libya Bernardino Leon. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar) (The Associated Press)

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    Acharif Alwafi Mohammed from the UN-recognized government in the eastern city of Tobruk speaks to the media outside the Palais des congress of Skhirate 30 km south of Rabat, Friday, March 6, 2015. Talks between the UN Special Envoy to Libya Bernardino Leon, and Libyan Second Deputy Chairman Dr. Saleh Almkhozom will continue. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar) (The Associated Press)

RABAT, Morocco – The delegates of Libya's rival governments are heading back to their home bases to consult on proposals made during three days of U.N.-sponsored talks.

The talks for the oil-rich nation wracked by rival militias, a government in the east and another in the west, have been given added urgency by the rise of the radical Islamist State group.

Delegates met with U.N. representative to Libya Bernardino Leon for three days in separate rooms to discuss security arrangements, including moving militias out of the cities and airports and the shape of a national unity government.

U.N. spokesman Samir Ghattas says proposals will now be presented to the respective governments and the talks will reconvene by mid-week.

Despite U.N. calls for calm, violence continued in the country during the talks.