February 4, 2021 at 9:00 am
On 16 September, 2011, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) passed Resolution 2009, creating the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL). The mission, which has boasted seven chiefs so far, increasingly became Libya s top decision-maker following a seven-month bloody civil war that divided the country.
The war officially ended on 20 October, 2011, with the murder of the late leader Muammar Gaddafi.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) intervened on 30 March, 2011, in support of the rebels, ending its air operations on 30 October, 2011. But as is usually the case in civil conflicts, fighting never truly ends without a widely-accepted settlement, which never happened in Libya.
NEW YORK: Efforts by the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) to elect a three-member Presidency Council will move to the next stage after none of the candidates secured the required 70 percent of the vote during a meeting in Geneva on Tuesday.
The forum, which was established late last year to advance the political peace process, is made up of 75 women and men from across the country who are described by the UN as reflecting the full social and political spectrum of Libyan society.
During talks in Tunisia in November, the LPDF agreed a plan to elect an interim executive authority that includes a prime minister and a three-member Presidency Council with one representative from each of Libya’s eastern, western and southern regions.
The United Nations Security Council approved on Friday the appointment of veteran diplomat Jan Kubis as the UN Libya envoy, diplomats said, nearly a year after the last mediator stepped down.
NEW YORK: “Libya’s future is in your hands.” That was the message to prospective election candidates from the UN’s envoy to the country, Stephanie Williams, ahead of her trip to Geneva for what she predicted will be “a decisive round of intra-Libyan talks.” They are expected to lead to the creation of a new, temporary executive authority that will shepherd the nation toward
By Sami Zaptia.
London, 29 January 2021:
In her final briefing to the Security Council yesterday before handing over to the new permanent incoming head, Jan Kubis, Acting UNSMIL head Stephanie Williams reiterated the need for foreign fighters and mercenaries to leave Libya and the need for the enforcement of the UN Libya arms embargo.
The 23 October ceasefire agreement had prescribed that they leave within 90-days, which passed last week
Williams reported that both sides were still undermining the ceasefire agreement through military build-up and accused internationally recognized prime minister, Faiez Serraj, of undermining security sector reform (SSR) demobilization, demilitarization, and reintegration (DDR) and the monopoly of the state on the use of legitimate force.