On the occasion of the disarmament week, UN Special Envoy to Libya reiterated “the UN’s commitment to providing technical support to Libya’s 5+5 Joint Military Committee (JMC) to accelerate the implementation of the ceasefire agreement, including placing the regularization of arms under the sole control of the state.”
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The Libyan outgoing Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, in his capacity as Defence Minister, signed two military cooperation agreements with Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar.
UN Special envoy to Libya Abdoulaye Bathily said in his remarks to Security Council Monday that the political deadlock persists with no clear end in sight to the prolonged stalemate over the executive authority.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Sunday the number of people internally displaced (IDPs) in Libya continued to decrease during the reporting period (May – June, 2022) as 143,419 individuals (29,194 families) were identified to be displaced by June 2022 compared to 159,996 IDPs identified in the previous round.
Crews aboard a humanitarian rescue ship rescued 39 people on Sunday from a small fiberglass boat adrift in the Mediterranean.
The U.N. Special Envoy to Libya Abdoulaye Bathily said Sunday he met in Benghazi with the Joint Military Commission’s (JMC) five eastern members and urged them to continue their efforts to preserve the ceasefire agreement.
Minister of State for Communication and Political Affairs of the Dbeibeh’s outgoing government, Walid al-Lafi, who is accused of supporting extremist groups in Libya through media, headed a delegation participating in a conference against Islamophobia held in Istanbul, Turkey on 22 October.
Components of the Libyan Cyrenaica region, represented by political, civil and social parties and forces, members of the Parliament and members of the Constitution Drafting Assembly have demanded the Parliament Presidency and members, the General Command of the Libyan National Army and all national Forces of declaring federal government in the regions of Cyrenaica and Fezzan according to the unamended 1951 constitution.
The Speaker of the Libyan Parliament Aqila Saleh and the Head of the High Council of State Khalid al-Mishri have agreed on changing heads of sovereign positions and unifying the government before the end of next January, as came in a press conference the two officials held Friday in Rabat, Morocco.
Members of the Libyan Parliament held talks on Thursday in Benghazi with the British ambassador to Libya, Caroline Hurndall, according to the Parliament Spokesman, Abdulla Bleihiq.