9000000000. 00 in addition to serious damages to infrastructure we have welcomed the statement by political leaders in Eastern Libya that called for a cease fire and a resumption of Oil Production however we have not yet seen cooperation from armed groups and the aggressors militias in fact we have only seen hostile remarks from their spokesperson and violations by their forces and their militias therefore we hold them responsible for any military confrontations and any resulting casualties understructure ladies and gentleman. We strived earnestly to address the Living Conditions and improve the performance of our sectors and to limit the proliferation of weapons and insecurity in many cases through cooperation with the un may support mission in libya we achieved tangible progress however these efforts were not sustainable because of external interventions and division among our institutions and the lack of Oil Production which is our most important source of revenue revenue. We always knew that addressing all of these challenges lies in the formulation of policies by an elected government of National Unity therefore we iterate that. We call for an agreement on a Constitutional Foundation and to organize president ial and parliamentary elections we look forward to a Strong International support in this regard and contribution of the United Nations to provide the requirements for a successful election an election that the libyans have awaited the for too long they will end such elections the legitimacy crisis. And to reach this goal we find it necessary to resume political dialogue and to include all the real actors on the current on the ground all political factions and parties all the regions and also share segments regardless of affiliation or ideology the only exception would be anyone who is crimes have been legally proven and who has spilled the libyan blood ladies and gentleman we confirm our commitment to the protection and promotion of human rights and for this purpose purpose we have legislated a number of National Laws and despite the challenges we seek to respect our International Obligations in this regard we are currently reviewing the accession to more treaties and conventions that promote human rights we also attach importance to promoting womens rights and gender equality and continue to provide Free Education and health care to all citizens. The aggression against tripoli represented a grave violation of human rights through its random shelling killing destruction displacement use of land mines and executions uncovered through mass graves found in the city of tire who not after. The aggressor was defeat. Defeated these various violations and serious violations earned a response from the Human Rights Council to our request and the council formed a commission of inquiry. And while we welcome this measure we also pledge our readiness to cooperate and facilitate the work of the commission we also call on the commission to investigate the violations suffered by citizens in the city of sirte at the hands of huffed militias the last of which was detaining and executing a man before the eyes of his family members the government of National Accord is committed to a citizens right to peacefully express themselves as guaranteed by the law and to protect the protesters and allow them the space to express their legitimate demands for better Living ConditionsBetter Services and an end to corruption we will not allow the force full of pression of this right ladies and gentlemen we reiterate again our condemnation of terrorism in all its forms. And we emphasize that this phenomenon must not be attributed to any religion or creed my country. Made great sacrifices to eliminate terrorist organizations that included a number of foreign fighters they included their ice which came from outside of libya and not only threatened our security and stability but also our own Natural Resources and sought to use our resources to launch evil plans from our territory libya has ratified all International Conventions on terrorism and we consider the un global strategy on counterterrorism in its 4 pillars as one of the most important legal frameworks to facilitate Counter Terrorism through National Legislation the promotion of regional and International Cooperation remains the best means to attract terrorist networks and eliminate them it is important. A mention in this regard the need to support regional and sub reasonable programs such programs include libyas cooperation with some of its neighbors in joint Border Control in order to arrest and prosecute terrorist ladies and gentleman. My country continues to attach importance to the phenomenon of irregular migration and to address the continued flow of migrants who expose themselves to great dangers and the evils of Trafficking Networks the migration represents a human tragedy that the International Community in the community is unable to resolve until today and as a transit country libya faces serious economic social and security reprehensive percussions of this phenomenon which has exacerbated our instability and reflected negatively on our society. It is difficult to address such a phenomenon without external assistance commensurate with its challenges we look forward to greater consultation with International Organizations with whom we cooperate in order to reach object of information on migrants in libya and the hardships they face we do not believe that you need not true reports containing inaccurate and exaggerated information are helpful in reaching solutions these reports are disappointing because they focus on allegations of violations by the relevant authorities in the country without mention of these same authorities efforts to serve the interests of migrants the reports neglect the fact that half a 1000000 irregular migrants live peacefully among the libyans and work in different sectors and send funds back to their families in their countries of origin. There is currently International Consensus that the challenges of migration are greater than the capacities of any single nation libya is a victim of migration and not its reason accordingly we reaffirm that they ideal solution is to address the root causes of migration the International Community must assist the countries of origin and encourage them to implement Real Development programs and improve their sectors performance Everything Possible must be done to address poverty unemployment and all hard jobs drive people to and mark on life threatening journeys ladies and gentlemen. My country attaches great importance to disarmament and the maintenance of International Peace and security. Through its active participation in discussions on this topic and through cosponsoring a number of un resolutions and we continue to respect all relevant treaties and conventions we understand of the threat to International Peace and security posed by the production and stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction and the horror they cause for humanity libya also participate in efforts for this armament of weapons of mass destruction and for the International Maintenance of peace and security mr president it has been 5 years since the implementation began of the Sustainable Development goals it is concerning that covered 19 pose a serious challenges that undermine the progress and sheaves and impeded the implementation. In libya we continue to face serious challenges in achieving these goals which include the political and security instability in the country everyone knows there can be no Development Without security and no security without development we look forward to overcoming the challenges in order to launch really developing programs and be able to achieve the s. D. G. s. Domestic mobilization of resources is necessary. And the libya a lot of libyas funds have escaped outside the country therefore we call on states to which these funds have escaped to reveal these funds and to assist in reclaiming our resources in this regard we would like to refer to the frozen assets and funds of the libyan sovereign funds since 2011 because of Security Council sanctions we emphasize that the purpose of these sanctions is to preserve libyan assets and funds and not to continue to erode the libyan funds what is effectively taking place is that we are suffering great losses because of their frozen status. We have provided to the Security Council. Since march 26th and on the losses we have suffered and we have called for an amendment of the sanctions regime but unfortunately there has not been a response for our legitimate request to date mr president my dedication supports the reforms led by the United NationsSecurity Council secretarygeneral and despite the progress achieved of the most important organ in the Security Council remains without reforms its become important to reform the council that no longer reflects the 21st century. The deucedly political reality is conducive to a reform of the council and a more equitable representation and accordingly we emphasize our support for lifting and correcting the historical injustice inflicted on africa through. The seats required as per the is what we need a consensus and they sort of declaration. Which include 2 permanent seats with all rights and 2 additional non permanent seats. In addition this request represents the minimum. For d the correction of the injustice inflicted on the continent in this regard we must also express our support for the demand made by the arab group for a permanent seat in the Council Ladies and gentlemen peace in the middle east will never be achieved so long as occupying power continues to occupy palestinian territory and establish settlements and threaten with more unjust blockade measures and through the continued disregard for all International Resolutions on the palestinian question we join the Palestinian People in their rejection of the practices of the occupying power and we join them in the minding establishment of their independent state with jerusalem as its capital and we also express our rejection for all attempts to abuse the posted in question to achieve different interests without the participation of palestinians themselves. We continue to support the quest for a palestinian state in conclusion i would like to emphasize that a civilian Democratic State is the aspiration for which the libyans have rebelled and it is what we seek in libya we aspired to live in a state where there is a peaceful transfer of power and where human rights are respected that and where the rule of law prevails they stay to their lives in peace and development and cooperates with its neighbors and that may nonces extremism and terrorism and libya does possess the capacities necessary to achieve this aspiration libyans are capable with the cooperation and assistance of friends to achieve a prosperous future we hope that we will quickly and to the current painful. Shays transformed into a state of democracy and pluralism that respects Cultural Diversity a state of law thank you mr president. Youve been watching the United Nations and General Assembly thats a pretty recorded message by far as i said i was the Prime Minister of libya i want to bring in our diplomatic editor james bass hes live for us at the u. N. Headquarters in new york father is also giving details of the reforms that he would like to see made in libya and also the state of the country itself but it seems to me right at the start that the 2 key elements that he was pointing to as stumbling blocks against the Current Crisis are the outside influences that he sees in the country but also the lack of a restarting of Oil Production. There clearly problems for the country and hes right to identify the Prime Minister probably making its last speech to the u. N. General assembly because he says hes going to stand aside soon from his job to allow for unified leadership potentially in libya because theres an ambitious plan from the u. N. Theyre going to name a new peace envoy very soon theyre going to have talks next week with regard to the International Community and what to do and then in october theyre trying to get both sides together for a peace deal that would lead to elections next year i have to say you have to be a big bit cautious because there have been many fall storms in libya and they have been dashed by ongoing fighting in the country a middling from outside and its left a really grim humanitarian situation a little earlier i spoke to the president of the International Credit red cross peter maher who is in libya recently. Walking through some of the outskirts of tripoli but began as he hadnt been surprised by the level of destruction which in which the cities find themselves it has reminded me of some of the worse urban settings that i have been seeing over the last couple of years in in mosul in homs in the internet or he also says that the way the International Community think about libya is a bit wrong because he says initially it was just migrants not just migrants it was migrants who were coming through libya from other parts of africa trying to get to europe that got caught up in the troubles in libya and the main humanitarian problem was the plight the desperate plight of those migrants theyve got all gone away but he says now its libyans themselves that are being deployed being moved from their homes and displaced in ever greater numbers the humanitarian situation is the worst its been james thanks very much indeed thats james peyser diplomatic editor outside the u. N. Headquarters in new york i want to bring in mohammed at the wall had hes live for us in tripoli mark james was talking there about the the migrants many of the migrants in libya also being libyans themselves whove been forced out of their homes because of the crisis that the country has been facing just bring us up to date with where those negotiations are to try and find a route through this and also the situation involving the libyan people themselves. Will that is one of the topics the been raised by raj and as you know that the rival factions have been involved in talks in rounds of talks in both morocco and switzerland which are both due to be resumed this week now the humanitarian situation is one of the measures topics that the authorities are concerned with as so mention here that humanitarian suffering that has been excessive baited due to the aggression on the capital tripoli he means the military campaign by half to his forces the last 14 months and he also mentioned that the civilians paid the heaviest price namely as you know rob the land mines planted by have to forces in the areas that is the fighting in southern tripoli the mass graves in the city of the horn and most of the victims are civilians. People who were displaced from their homes because of the fighting and many people in fact we have been witnessing many families who were forced out of their homes because of the fighting they were either. Many of them were killed or wounded by landmines when they tried to return home in southern tripoli of that house to the forces that was drawn from southern tripoli now the rival factions including the representatives of the government of national. Parliament to. Parliament in Eastern Libya the high council of state in it in tripoli and also representatives of the Society Organizations civilian leaders of the Political Parties all of them under the auspices of the united nation. And support the mission in libya along with the humanitarian dire looks hunter are due to meet again in switzerland this week to discuss ways to bring stability and peace back to the country and to end the stalemate in central libya also the military escalation in the city of sirte and algebra as our correspondent mahmood of the wall heard talking to us from tripoli lets talk to William Lawrence whos a professor of Political Science and International Affairs at American University hes joining us on skype from washington d. C. Its good to have you with the surf think you very much indeed it is a fairly bleak picture obviously being painted by the Prime Minister there with regard to libya as james bays our correspondent said there have been false dawns when it comes to the talks that are being held is there any reason for optimism this time round. I think there is and james bay is right we think many false starts on peace in libya in our successful political transition and surat just speech was wishful it was comprehensive and it was unvarnished he basically talked honestly about whats wrong and and frankly about the way ahead in a way thats refreshing and i think will be sad to see him go but the latest round of negotiations is better than the previous ones we have the berlin conference very successfully run with merkel which became 55. 00 u. N. Security Council Resolution which nobody told and flowing from that weve had a german an american led peace negotiations all summer leading to these geneva and iraq talks and so far so good there are many possible spoilers from inside and outside of libya there is the humanitarian catastrophe youve been talking about but surprises so pop into the outcome that his resignation announced for october is based on the specs to be replaced one way or is it a change counsel and for these elections to be and now its unclear to us is what are the private elements of these talks. The carpet and the things will be moving forward and that remains to be seen certainly an active un and active us role on this but its in a position thats better ever since the secretary general of the u. N. Was bombed while he was tripoli last year during the beginning of the siege William Lawrence is a professor of Political Science and International Affairs at American University re appreciate your giving us the benefit of your experience so thank you very much indeed. Senior republicans and democrats are pushing back against donald trump after he refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power in november the u. S. President has repeatedly cost out on the legitimacy of mail in ballots and on wednesday it was a vase of when he was asked about the possibility of losing the election. Well have to see what happens you know that ive been complaining very strongly about the ballots and the ballots are disaster and the people arriving commit to making sure that theres a nice little word for all of the we want to have get rid of the ballots and youll have a very transfer well have a very peaceful there wont be a transfer or frankly there will be a continuation of the ballots out of control you know it and you know who knows it better than anybody else the democrats know it better than anybody else. Or Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell was among republicans whove weighed in on twitter saying the winner of that of of the 30 election will be inaugurated on january the 20th there will be an orderly transition just as the has been every 4 years since 792 by House Speaker nancy pelosi whos a democrat says the president should on his duty to the constitution but that a president of the United States would place in doubt the idea of the peaceful transfer of power and well its no surprise because the president has been contemptible of science and government. Rival groups hamas and fatah say they reached a deal to hold the 1st Palestinian Elections in 14 years the votes are expected to be shared told within 6 months the last parliamentary elections in 2006 so hamas when an unexpected majority lead to a conflict with fatah lets go live to new the abraham in the ramallah in the occupied west bank needed just give us some more detail about what we know about this. This senior felt that needed to be the group house talked about the 2 parties agreeing on Holding Elections in stages 1st to start with then the gist of the Council Elections then to move towards the president ial ones and then to hold elections for the Palestinian National council which should be including also palestinians in that they are these meetings between fatah have a mouse have intensified believe the they started with a press conference between there to do this you know how much the the saga had i would be in july they said that they wanted to unite to combat that is really the clowns up an exception of course that has been fully by a series of events leading the u. A. E. Signing a deal with israel as well as. They both normalize relations with the israelis and that has led the palestinians to feel that they lost a lot of their Regional Support then they say that they have really nothing much but to reunite the palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is due to speak at the United NationsGeneral Assembly and hes expected to be talking about a president ial decree to hold these elections after that meeting a meeting that is expected to be held next week between different Palestinian Party leaders this is the 1st not the 1st time we hear palestinian factions dont have up to. Wanting to bridge the gap a recent poll also showed that palestinians that the majority of palestinians do not be. Eves that defense and nation and principle. But we didnt have political analysts in the know and they say even though the split been between the palestinians themselves has been in existence for over 30 years now there is a better chance this time specifically that this is the 1st time a president ial decree is being mentioned when there is a discussion on the conciliation but also they think that palestinians have looked lost a lot of Regional Support then they will continue to do so specifically if the us president wins his 2nd term elections. Abraham give yourself. From ramallah in the occupied west bank. Israel is imposing even stricter coronavirus locked on measure after a surge in infections Prime Minister benjamin is in yahoo says the restrictions are necessary to keep the country from being pushed to what he calls the edge of the abyss sorry for such reports. Israel was already one week into its 2nd coded 1000 locked down now with new cases nearing 7000 a day and the Health System issuing warnings of overstretch daily life in the economy to be restricted yet further. In the past 2 days we heard from the experts that if we dont take immediate and difficult steps we will reach the edge of the a bit in order to save the lives of Israeli Citizens we are required to impose full lockdown for 2 weeks. That means all nonessential businesses will close at an estimated cost of 10000000000. 00 with around a 5th of the workforce unemployed the measure was opposed by the finance minister is unnecessarily damaging and its a hard sell to a public already doubting and in many cases defying the current rules i think the government. Is using and deploying actions that there is no medical agreement that are necessary i think that the government is completely dysfunctional i mean nothing nothing that is related to the country to the citizens and its. A priority. The restrictions will stop the weekly demonstrations in west jerusalem political protesters will be able to gather only in groups of 20 no more than a kilometer from their homes prayers will be subject to the same rules with the exception of the jewish holy day of young people next week when synagogues will reopen with restrictions. Thats led to fears of further spread within ultraorthodox jewish towns and neighborhoods already hotspots of transmission netanyahu has been accused of failing to impose early targeted measures on such places because of the influence of the ultraorthodox Political Parties and so with the competing factional demands confused messaging coming from the government theres been an erosion in a crucial commodity public trust a poll this week put support for Benjamin Netanyahu as handling of the crisis. Just 27 percent palestinian areas have also seen high infection rates and sporadic government informant especially in the patchwork of jurisdictions that make up occupied East Jerusalem the man in charge of tackling the pandemic went himself on thursday to the refugee camp within jerusalem but beyond the surface aeration wall to find business is open and people mixing. When you look at the streets here you see people without vests those are wearing them its not a picture to expect in a neighborhood with such a high rate of people dying of course at 19. The. Israelis have been watching the numbers grow with deepening alarm for weeks now they wait to find out whether this hastily arranged much argued over extra lockdown will work when so much has failed ari force it out just 0 west jerusalem the u. S. The u. K. And canada are planning to impose sanctions and belorussian officials thats after president Alexander Lukashenko was sworn in for a 6th term on the wagon say the opposition says his election was rigged and theres been a violent crackdown on protesters demanding look at his resignation u. K. Foreign secretary says the sanctions will target those responsible for syrias Human Rights Violations. This is our dizzier these are the top stories u. S. Senate republican leader Mitch Mcconnell says there will be an orderly transfer of power after the november election thats after President Donald Trump refused to say whether to accept the results of the last trump has repeatedly cast doubt on the legitimacy of mail in ballots without any evidence and Speaker Nancy Pelosi whos a democrat says the president should honor his duty to the constitution. But that a president of the United States would place in doubt the idea of the peaceful transfer of power and well its no surprise because the president has been contemptible of science and government libyan Prime Minister for as all sides has demanded all fallen forces withdraw from his country it was speaking at the un General Assembly he says continued interference has kept libya from reaching a peaceful resolution to the ongoing conflict diplomatic editor james bays is at the u. N. Headquarters in new york. Prime minister whats the rush probably making his last speech to the u. N. General assembly because he says hes going to stand aside soon from his job to allow for unified leadership potentially in libya because theres an ambitious plan from the u. N. Theyre going to name a new peace envoy very soon theyre going to have talks next week with regard to the International Community and what to do and then in october theyre trying to get both sides together for a peace deal that would lead to elections next year i have to say you have to be a big bit cautious because there have been many fall storms in libya and they have been dashed by ongoing fighting in the country the meddling from outside Thailands Parliament has pushed back a debate on amending the constitution until november the proposed changes had angered protesters who are calling for reform of the monarchy and an end to military involvement in the government the u. S. The u. K. And canada are planning to impose sanctions on belorussian officials thats after president Alexander Lukashenko was sworn in for the 6th time on wednesday the opposition says his election was rigged and theres been a violent crackdown on protesters demanding look at his resignation the you can foreign secretary says the sanctions will target those responsible for serious Human Rights Violations those are the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after inside story. Is china backing up its growing power with economic and Political Coalition thats an accusation being leveled in australia europe and washington so is there a line between acting like a great power and taking things too far this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program. I just friends bide your time that famous phrase from Chinese Communist leader Deng Xiaoping governed its Foreign Policy for decades but not any