Political analyst Idris Ahmid said that the briefing presented by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Libya, Hanna Tetteh, to the Security Council is a periodic briefing as part of the regular monitoring of the Libyan situation. However, in exclusive remarks to the Sputnik agency, he stated that it reflects the continued failure of the United Nations to perform its true role in supporting Libya to emerge from its crisis.
Ahmid explained that the UN mission has intervened through more than nine successive envoys without reaching a final solution, considering this path to have proven not to be the way to a solution, and that the priority should have been to diagnose the points of failure rather than settling for “pro forma” briefings.
He indicated that the real problem lies in the proliferation of weapons outside the state’s legitimacy, especially in Tripoli, which is “hostage to armed formations” from which successive governments derive strength and obtain funds, all amid UN and international silence, keeping the crisis in a vicious cycle.
He pointed to the need for the mission to bear the responsibility of clearly diagnosing the crisis, especially regarding the role of the Government of Unity, which “has not accomplished the tasks assigned to it,” with “chaotic” financial and economic policies that threaten the country with bankruptcy. He noted that the manipulation of the dinar exchange rate and foreign reserves was not addressed in the latest briefing, despite Libya being under Chapter VII.
He said that foreign interventions still exist, and that the Government of Unity and the High Council of State do not want a real agreement on sovereign positions, and what is happening is “merely political procrastination.”
Ahmid stressed that the solution must be security-based before it is political, as there can be no “real” parliamentary or presidential elections without security stability and a unified government capable of imposing the rule of law and establishing security across all Libyan territory. Even municipal elections “will not succeed” without this.