Turkey said Wednesday it was still confident the ceasefire in Libya would hold despite strongman Khalifa Haftar’s refusal to sign a permanent truce.

Haftar walked away from talks in Moscow aimed at finalising a ceasefire orchestrated by Russia and Turkey, which came into force Sunday.

The joint Turkish and Russian initiative is the latest international effort to broker an end to fighting between Haftar’s forces based in the east of the country and the UN-recognised government in Tripoli.