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.
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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.
The Tripoli-based Defense Ministry, led by outgoing prime minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, denied on Sunday reports which claimed the country’s border points with Tunisia have been modified.
The withdrawal of mercenaries and foreign forces out of Libya “will remain linked to the formation of an elected and representative Libyan government for all Libyans,” U.N. Advisor Stephanie Williams said on Monday.
Migrant-rescue vessel Ocean Viking, operated by SOS Méditerranée, rescued at sea on Sunday night a total of 75 migrants, the passengers of an “overcrowded rubber dinghy in difficulty” off Libya’s coast, bringing to 90 the number of survivors on board, the NGO said in a statement.
Libya’s outgoing prime minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, suspended the board of directors of the state-owned General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) over the country’s electricity crisis, Dbeibeh’s government announced on Sunday.
A force of the Libyan National Army (LNA) reportedly shut down a conference in the country’s southern region of Fezzan on Monday after the participants called for self-governance in the region.
Chairman of the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC), Mustafa Sanalla, said they are considering the declaration of the state of force majeure within the next 72 hours unless production and shipping is resumed at the oil ports in the Gulf of Sirte.