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Moin Kikhia, the Founder of the Libyan Democratic Institute, announced on Friday his candidacy for the proposed temporary Unified Executive Authority. in a tweet, Kikhia said: “I have submitted my Candidacy for the post of Prime Minister in the proposed temporary Unified Executive Authority.” He urged that the proposed interim government must be nonpolitical and […].
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The top UN official in Libya urged the Security Council on Thursday to express clear support for a new unified government in Libya, amid hopeful signs that a decade of armed conflict might finally be coming to an end.
Stephanie Williams, the Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), told the 15-member organ that intra-Libyan dialogues – facilitated by the Mission – have produced “tangible results”.
#Libya: “I am pleased to report that the ceasefire signed in Geneva on 23 October continues to be observed,” Acting Special Representative Williams said in a @UN Security Council briefing today. https://t.co/Di1GMgQHmPpic.twitter.com/O4PLUiDScu
By Sami Zaptia.
London, 24 January 2021:
As the 90-day deadline for the withdrawal of all foreign troops and mercenaries from all Libya passed yesterday unfulfilled, UNSMIL promised continued support. The deadline had been set by Libya’s 23 October 2020 ceasefire agreed by the 5+5 Joint Military Commission (JMC).
Both the internationally recognized government in Tripoli and the pro-Khalifa Hafter forces are backed by foreign forces and mercenaries.
In its supportive statement yesterday, UNSMIL said the co-chairs of the International Follow-Up Committee for Libya Security Working Group (SWG), represented by the African Union, France, Italy, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), met on 20 January 2021 with the 5+5 Joint Military Commission (JMC).
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.