LIBYA – The American Special Envoy and Ambassador to Libya, Richard Norland, said several members of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) appear to be trying to insert “poison pills” to ensure elections will not happen.
Geneva, Switzerland | The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) announced that the members of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) had failed to reach an agreement on the constitutional basis under which the December 24 elections in Libya were supposed to take place.
Cyrenaica | A number of towns of the Green Mountain in Cyrenaica, Libya, have been witnessing wildfires due to the heat wave that continues to hit Libya since week.
Nicosia, Cyprus | Egypt and Cyprus stressed the importance of removing foreign forces from Libya and ending negative foreign interference in the neighboring country. This came in a meeting between diplomats from Egypt and Cyprus that dealt with relations between the two countries and regional issues.
Geneva, Switzerland | Twenty-four members of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) sent to the UN mission a letter of objection to the course of the Geneva talks and demanded that the elections be completed on December 24 without delay.
Ahmed Maiteeq, the former deputy head of the Presidential Council in Libya, said that the Libyan people have the right to choose their president and a new legislative body in the country.
Athens, Greece | The Speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives, chancellor Aguila Saleh, stressed the need to remove foreign forces and mercenaries from Libya, and to hold the Libyan presidential and parliamentary elections on time on December 24. This came during a meeting with the Speaker of the Greek Parliament Speaker Konstantinos Tasoulas.
The Libyan Minister of Oil and Gas, Mohamed Oun, expressed his hope that by the end of this year, Libya’s oil production would reach between 1.4 and 1.5 million barrels per day.
Some members of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) plan to obstruct the presidential and parliamentary elections in December 24 by forcing a constitutional referendum instead.
The Libyan Interior Ministry has closed the country’s the second largest crossing border with Tunisia, known as Wazen Al-Dhiba, due to a recent spike of COVID-19 cases in the neighboring country, sources told Libya Update on Thursday.