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English News and Press Release on Libya about Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding; published on 07 Feb 2021 by EC
By Sami Zaptia. London, 28 January 2021: EU Ambassador Jose Sabadell held talks in Benghazi this week with the National Forces for Peace, the organisation for marginalised cities, and the head of the Supreme Council for Al-Zwiya Tribes, Sheikh al-Senussi al-Haleeg. The EU reported yesterday that meeting participants expressed appreciation for the results achieved so far by the Berlin Process and stressed the need for national reconciliation. It reported that all participants agreed that Libya is at a critical stage and in urgent need of a unity government. They reportedly said that focus sho...
Acting Special Representative of the Secretary General for Libya Stephanie Williams Briefing to the Security Council Format Members of the Security Council, I wish to congratulate Tunisia for assuming the Presidency of the Council for the month of January. This month marks one year since Chancellor Merkel of Germany and the Secretary-General convened the Berlin Conference on 19 January 2020. The Conference did not put an immediate end to the conflict and the suffering of the Libyan people. Nor did foreign support to the warring parties relent and indeed, this blatant foreign interference cont...
Summary Key European states need to make Libya a shared foreign policy priority, and to overcome their competing approaches to the country. Europeans must reinvigorate the UN political track and use it to reinforce a unified national structure rather than entrench competing administrations. They should focus on protecting Europe’s core interests in Libya: sustainably ending the conflict, creating a reliable local partner, and preserving European influence. To make the UN process work, Europeans should take a more hands-on approach to blocking and isolating domestic and international spoiler...
21.01.2021 The US has maintained a relatively passive approach to Libya under President Donald Trump, whose administration largely left the Libyan dossier to Egypt, several Arab Gulf states, Turkey, Europeans, and Russia. In 2021, however, America’s new leadership will probably try to assert US influence in the war-torn country more actively, argue CSS Lisa Watanabe and Giorgio Cafiero in this CSS Blog. Image courtesy of Tech. Sgt. Brigitte Brantley/DVIDS. President-elect Joe Biden and those in his inner circle have vowed to push back against Moscow in various ways, which means Libya could ...