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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
Wednesday, 27 January, 2021 - 06:15
A view of pipelines and a loading berth of the Marsa al-Hariga oil port in the city of Tobruk, east of Tripoli, Libya, Aug. 20, 2013. (Reuters) Cairo – Khaled Mahmoud
US Ambassador to Libya Richard Norland expressed concern over any future halt in the country’s oil exports.
He made his remarks during a meeting with National Oil Corporation (NOC) Chairman Mustafa Sanalla on Monday “to share concerns that a further shutdown of Libya’s energy sector would harm all Libyans,” said the US embassy in a tweet.
The ambassador is based in Tunisia and the embassy did not specify the location of the meeting with Sanalla, who is affiliated with the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA).
Ankara, Turkey – Two years ago, relations between Turkey and Saudi Arabia stood at one of the lowest points in the history of the two regional powers following the murder in Istanbul of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
His killing in October 2018 at the hands of Saudi agents in the kingdom’s consulate led to unprecedented Turkish denouncements of the Saudi government, highlighting what it said was the role of those close to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country’s de facto ruler, in the assassination plot.
Today, however, ties between Ankara and Riyadh appear on the verge of a return to cordiality, thanks in part to the detente between Turkey’s ally Qatar and the four-nation Saudi-led bloc that imposed an embargo on Doha in 2017.
Thousands of foreign mercenaries remain in Libya despite deadline expiration 1 minute read
By Mohamad Abdel Kader
Tripoli, Jan 23 (efe-epa).- A year ago, a first group of nearly 2,500 Syrian opposition mercenaries arrived in Libya on board of Turkish army-charted planes alongside with dozens of thousands of weapons and ammunition.
Their mission was to join the militias of the United Nations-backed, Tripoli-based Government of National Accord fighting troops led by Marshal Khalifa Hafter, who had laid siege to the capital since 4 April 2019, the day that UN Secretary General Antonio Gutierres was set to travel to Libya to promote the peace process.