The British Minister of State, James Cleverly, visited the Libyan capital Tripoli on Thursday and met with Mohamed al-Menfi, the President of Libya's Presidential Council.
Secretary-General Special Envoy Jan Kubis discusses security, political situation in Libya, un support for reconciliation with PC President Mohamed Al Menfi in Tobruk
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TOBRUK, 30 April 2021 - Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya Ján Kubiš met yesterday in Tobruk with the President of the Presidency Council of Libya Mr. Mohamed Al Menfi.
The Special Envoy briefed President Al Menfi on key elements of the recently adopted UN Security Council Resolutions no. 2570 (2021) and no. 2571 (2021) and on his recent engagement with regional and international interlocutors. They discussed ways to expedite the implementation of the Ceasefire Agreement in full, without any further delay with the opening of the coastal road as a necessary confidence-building step. In this regard, Special Envoy Kubiš and President Al Menfi also discussed needed steps at national and international levels to start the withdrawal process
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The President of Libya’s newly elected interim government, Mohamed Menfi, advocated unity and “true reconciliation” in his first trip to the country’s eastern region.
At a UN-sponsored conference in Geneva last week, delegates from Libya’s warring sides picked four leaders to guide the nation to elections in December.
“Our objective is to achieve unity and true reconciliation and to collaborate with all in order to end the suffering,” Mr Menfi tweeted shortly before his arrival.
A diplomat from the country’s east, he was picked to lead the three-member Presidency Council, which includes two other officials.
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The future of Libya’s new government is as hard to predict as the people selected to lead it, with established heavyweight candidates surprisingly losing out in Friday’s election to political novices.
Heading the new unity government is a three-strong presidency, led by Mohamed Menfi, a former ambassador to Greece. A cabinet will now be formed by new prime minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, a businessman from Misurata.
Neither man has until now been a key player in Libya’s often chaotic political firmament. Both men are now charged with stabilising a fractured country and supervising elections due in December.