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Libyan delegates meet Monday for UN-backed talks in Geneva to choose a new temporary executive to lead the war-scarred country through a transition until scheduled December elections.
The 75 participants at the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum have until Friday to select a prime minister and a three-member presidency council from a list of 45 candidates, Libya’s UN mission UNSMIL said in a statement.
Oil-rich Libya has been torn by civil war since a NATO-backed uprising led to the ouster and killing of long-time dictator Moamer Kadhafi in 2011.
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Stephanie Williams, UN secretary-general’s acting special representative for Libya and head of the UN Support Mission speaks during a news conference in Tunis, Tunisia on November 15, 2020. (AP) Asharq Al-Awsat
Delegates from Libya’s opposing sides kicked off a five-day meeting on Monday to choose an interim prime minister and a three-person Presidential Council in a bid to reunite the troubled oil-rich country before an election in December.
The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum, including envoys from around Libya, was meeting under UN mediation in an undisclosed site outside Geneva.
The voting process is taking place under the mediation of the UN secretary-general’s acting special representative for Libya, Stephanie Williams. The interim authority to be chosen will seek to rebuild state institutions and lead Libya to a national election on December 24. A list of possible candi
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Acting UN envoy to Libya, Stephanie Williams. (UNSMIL) Cairo – Khaled Mahmoud
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya released a list of 45 candidates to join the new transitional executive authority, comprised of the Presidential Council and prime minister positions.
“The Mission extends its heartfelt appreciation for the efforts of the three-person verification committee, drawn from the membership of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF), to review the candidates’ applications in line with the eligibility criteria consensually agreed upon by the LPDF in Tunis,” it said in a statement on Saturday.
“All candidates pledged to respect the LPDF Roadmap with regard to the preparatory period paving the way for the holding of national elections on December 24, 2021,” it added.
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