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Libya has been suffering for years from the prolongation of its crisis and its people’s suffering because of a blend of international and internal disputes, and chaos, which has resulted in deliberate efforts to delay the crisis’ solutions.
Jan Kubis, a former Slovak diplomat, is the UN’s seventh envoy in Libya. His appointment came after the mysterious resignation of Bulgarian Nikolay Mladenov, who attributed it to personal reasons, which itself succeeded the Lebanese Ghassan Salame’s resignation for health reasons. Neither justification is compelling.
The new envoy has many of the same obstacles ahead of him. The realism he is known for cannot bring an end to the Libyan crisis alone. Bringing the parties together requires immense effort, which could be initiated by the envoy’s office and replacing the controversial figures who were part of the previous envoys’ teams.
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