The Security Council on Monday approved another “technical rollover” for the mandate of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) as council members could not find consensus on a substantive mandate renewal.
The Speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR) Aqila Saleh said Tuesday that the HoR started to accept candidates’ paperwork for the position of the Prime Minister and the selection of the winning name to replace the current PM, Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah, will take place on February 08.
Parliament Speaker Aguila Saleh said that delaying the departure of the Parliament’s plane from Tripoli’s Mitiga Airport for 6 hours was a “deliberate act.”
Deputy Prime Minister Hussien Al-Qatrani met on Monday with the European Union’s Ambassador to Libya, Jose Sabadell to discuss the EU’s support for Libya.
Libya’s political rivals should stop conducting musical chairs to stay in power and focus instead on preparing for nationwide elections to be held by June, the U.N. Special Adviser Stephanie Williams said.
Kuwait’s Foreign Minister, Sheikh Ahmed Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah, affirmed his country’s support for Libya regarding the electoral process, according to a statement by the Libyan foreign ministry.
Forming a new Libyan interim government could disrupt the elections process in Libya, warned Richard Norland, the U.S. Ambassador and Special Envoy to Libya.
The Libyan Attorney General, Al-Siddiq Al-Sour, visited Rome on the weekend where he met with Italian Supreme Court judge Giovanni Salvi and Attorney General Renato Venechio to discuss judicial cooperation.
The US ambassador to Libya, Richard Norland, has condemned the recent attack by ISIS, which took place near Qatrun in southern Libya, during the past two days, describing it as a “terrorist”.
The U.N. Special Envoy to Libya, Stephanie Williams, spoke via phone yesterday with Matlta’s Foreign Minister Evarist Bartolo to discuss the situation in Libya.