Popular protests in various cities and regions of Libya continue for the second consecutive day but with less intensity.
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Commenting on Friday’s demonstrations that took place in several Libyan cities, Stephanie Williams, UN Special Adviser on Libya, said “the people’s right to peacefully protest should be respected and protected but riots and acts of vandalism such as the storming of the House of Representatives headquarters late yesterday in Tobruk are totally unacceptable.”
Libya’s House of Representatives said on Thursday that it failed to reach agreement with the High Council of State on eligibility requirements for elections candidates during the two-day talks between the leaders of both chambers in Geneva.
The U.N. Secretary General’s Special Adviser for Libya, Stephanie Williams, will remain in office for at least another month, Italian news agency Nova reports.
The leaders of Libya’s House of Representatives and High Council of State have reached today “unprecedented consensus” after holding two-day talks in Geneva under facilitation from the United Nations, announced Stephanie Williams, a special advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General.
U.N. Advisor to Libya, Stephanie Williams, has urged leaders of the country’s House of Representatives and High Council of State to make “historic compromise” as they began their two-day talks on constitutional arrangements for elections.
The United States expressed dismay over “appalling” schemes by Libyan politicians to determine who will be in power, Richard Mills, Deputy U.S. Representative to the U.N., told the Security Council on Monday.
480 migrants have been intercepted at sea and disembarked back on Libyan shores between 19 and 25 of June, said the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Monday.
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aguila Saleh, and chairman of the High Council of State, Khaled Al-Mishri, met at U.N. headquarters on Tuesday to start two-day talks on constitutional arrangements for elections in Libya.
The United Nations on Monday called on all Libyan political and security actors to “exercise maximum restraint” and “address all disputes through dialogue”, while affirming its “readiness to facilitate dialogue” between Libya’s two rival prime ministers, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh and Fathi Bashagha.