The United Nations Security Council approved on Friday the appointment of veteran diplomat Jan Kubis as the U.N. Libya envoy, diplomats said, nearly a year after the last mediator stepped down.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) The U.N. Security Council has given a green light for former Slovak Foreign Minister Jan Kubis, the current U.N. envoy in Lebanon, to lead the U.N. political mission in.
By Sami Zaptia.
London, 16 January 2021:
Seventy percent of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) roadmap has been accomplished, and ‘‘significant progress’’ has been made in the ongoing Advisory Committee talks, UNSMIL Spokesperson Jean Alam said during a press briefing yesterday on the ongoing LPDF Advisory Committee talks taking place in Geneva.
In what sounded like a farewell roundup of UNSMIL progress made specifically under Acting head Stephanie Williams in view of news of the appointment of Ghassan Salame’s successor, Jan Kubic, Alam gave a roundup of the progress achieved so far by UNSMIL in the other various tracks too.
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The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum in Tunis, Tunisia (File photo: Reuters) Cairo - Khalid Mahmoud
The Advisory Committee of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) kicked off Wednesday the UN-sponsored meetings in Geneva, Switzerland.
The discussions will be held until January 16 with participants from different Libyan regions.
The UN mission said in its statement that the meeting of the advisory committee started with the national anthem, followed by the opening remarks of the Acting Special Representative of the Sec-Gen in Libya Stephanie Williams.
Williams indicated that the committee was formed to come up with recommendations about the formation of an interim, unified executive authority.