After seven envoys in nine years, is the UN failing Libya?
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A change in the UN’s approach and strategy is needed, not its personnel.
The sixth UN special envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salame, resigned in his role early March this year, after nearly three years in the post.
Salame was appointed Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on 22 June 2017, as the sixth envoy in six years. The UN Secretary General has asked Salame’s deputy, Stephanie Williams, to continue as acting Special Representative until a new envoy was appointed.
Stephanie Williams has continued in the role since, attempting to implement the January 2020 Berlin Conference outcomes through the Libyan political dialogue process, after a nationwide ceasefire was signed in Geneva in October.
if we had not been part of that council, again, which many people objected to, we wouldn t have been able to have taken that action. also u.s. in another news report, u.s. ambassador to the u.n. human rights council eileen chamberlain donna who said, took a strong position, and she made the statement, the united states on monday urged the united nations human rights council in geneva to stop its biased treatment of israel. it took particularly issue with agenda item 7 on which and this is something i ve been complaining about. as long as i ve been on this session. every single session the united states council has put an item on it, on their agenda with regard to israel, and, she said, the united states continues to be deeply troubled by the council s bias and disproportionate focus on israel, as exemplified by the standing agenda item. i think it s very important that the united states became part of this council, and i want to applaud the secretary of state and your
abuses by the largest margin in history. similarly we ve used the human rights council to put in place a special rapporteur. we believe able to get the general assembly to condemn the plot to assassinate the ambassador so in every turn we re trying to ratchet up the pressure on iran with success. let me jump over to a question i asked earlier and we ran out of time and that was security council resolution 1701 with hezbollah and the rearming there. what has been done to help stop hezbollah s rearming or can you brief the committee regarding the latest on security resolution 1701. 1701 is the resolution that established a renewed mandate for unifil on the border of southern lebanon with israel. its mandate is to prevent the flow of personnel and weapons into a zone adjoining the israeli border. it has been relatively effective in doing that. it is a mandate under chapter 6 of the u.n. charter rather than chapter 7, which would have been our preference, being the more robus
secretary clinton and for me as well. thank you. thank you. mr. dent. thank you, madam ambassador, just a couple quick things. you mentioned the north korean situation. three weeks ago secretary clinton came before this subcommittee and discussed the fact that the north koreans were going to implement this moratorium on future launches and other nuclear related issues. and of course we said we re going to judge them by their actions and not by their words. and of course last week the north koreans announced their intentions to conduct another missile launch which i guess the state department said directly violates various u.n. security council resolutions, 17/18 and 18/74. so i guess the real question is what action should the u.n. and other organizations take if north korea goes forward and launches a missile just as they have promised in the next few weeks? in our view if north korea in violation of its existing obligations under the two resolutions you cited, in viol