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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.
The conversation was initiated by the UN envoy
MOSCOW, January 22. /TASS/. Issues of Libyan settlement were in focus of a telephone conversation between Russian president’s special envoy for the Middlee East and African countries and Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Borgdanov and United Nations Secretary General’s new Special Envoy on Libya Jan Kubis, the Russian foreign ministry said on Friday.
Bogdanov congratulated Kubis on the appointment to his position and wished every success in his mission. The sides discussed a range of issues linked with the development of the situation in and around Libya and stressed the importance of further coordination of the United Nations-led international efforts to promote Libyan settlement and establishment of an inclusive and sustainable political process involving all the influential forces in the country, the ministry said.
Libya: Peace talks not possible amid fighting, UN envoy
By: RFE/RL
Source: RFE/R
The United Nations’ special envoy to Libya has hinted that next
week’s planned peace conference could be postponed amid ongoing fighting between rival militias for control of the capital, Tripoli r daten herunterladen.
In a statement on April 9, Ghassan Salame expressed hope that the
meeting will be convened as soon as conditions permit, saying: “We
cannot ask people to take part in the conference during gunfire and air
strikes.”
The UN had planned to hold a conference in the southwestern town of
Ghadames from April 14 to April 16 to discuss a way out of the country’s
By Sami Zaptia.
London, 19 January 2021:
The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced yesterday the appointment of Ján Kubiš (Jan Kubis) of Slovakia as his Special Envoy on Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL). This position is established pursuant to Security Council resolution 2542 (2020), the UN reported.
The UN reported that the Secretary-General is grateful for the commitment and outstanding leadership of Acting Special Representative Stephanie T. Williams of the United States in moving the political process forward in Libya.
Williams had been Acting UNSMIL head after the resignation of Ghassan Salame in March last year.
The U.N. says officials from Libya's rival administrations have begun talks in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Hurghada on constitutional arrangements laying the legal groundwork for presidential and parliamentary elections late this year