150 Libyan personalities warned in a statement signed Monday of dragging the UN-backed National Conference into "transitional arrangements", underlining that this would be a grave mistake that could put the country in jeopardy and open the floodgates for challenging its legitimacy and intentions, according to the statement.

The signatories, who include, politicians, academics, lawyers, and activists, expressed their concern that the National Conference will be an automatic tool for blessing the power-sharing agenda, especially in light of what they called the "UN mission's insistence on acting obscurely", in terms of the absence of an agreed agenda among the participating parties and the procedural rules, as well as the criteria for selecting participants.

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