The U.N. Special Envoy to Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, arrived in Tripoli on Friday to formally assume his functions and lead the U.N. Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL).
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The newly appointed U.N. Envoy to Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, officially assumed his duties on 25 September. However, he will conduct a series of meetings with senior UN officials and representatives of Member States in New York before his arrival in Libya in in early October.
Georgette Gagnon, the U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator in Libya, held talks on Monday with several political representatives and community leaders from Benghazi during her visit to the city.
The United Nations Security Council will convene on Thursday morning, September 29, to hold consultations on Libya, according to the council’s agenda.
The United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and France have jointly reaffirmed their support for the newly appointed U.N. Envoy to Libya Abdoulaye Bathily and for the U.N. mediation aimed at “producing a constitutional basis to enable free, fair, and inclusive presidential and parliamentary elections throughout Libya in the shortest possible time”.
The Chairman of the Presidential Council, Mohamed Al-Manfi, took part on Monday at a U.N. called ‘Transforming Education’ on the sidelines of 77th General Assembly in New York, according to a brief statement by the council.
The U.N. Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has discredited on Sunday a “fabricated” letter purporting to be from its acting head of mission Raisedon Zenenga.
The European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, expressed on Saturday his “warm congratulations” to Senegalese diplomat Abdoulaye Bathily who was recently named as U.N. envoy to Libya.
The Libyan Presidential Council welcomed on Saturday the decision of U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to appoint Senegalese diplomat Abdoulaye Bathily as his new special envoy to Libya, ending a nine-month vacancy.
The Security Council on Friday approved former Senegalese minister and U.N. diplomat Abdoulaye Bathily as the new U.N. envoy to Libya, ending a nine-month vacancy.