Stephanie Williams, the U.N. Advisor on Libya, will attend will attend the U.N. spokesperson’s daily briefing on Friday, February 18, Libyan news website Al-Wasat reported on Wednesday.
Stephanie Williams, the U.N. Advisor on Libya, flew on Wednesday to the eastern city of Quba where she met with Aguila Saleh, Speaker of Libya’s House of Representative, for talks on the latest political developments in the country.
Khaled Al-Mishri, chairman of the High Council of State, and Stephanie Williams, the U.N. Special Advisor on Libya, met on Monday at the council’s headquarter in Tripoli for talks on the latest political developments in Libya.
The UN chief is “following closely” the latest political crisis unfolding in Libya following the parliament’s decision to name a new prime minister, which which threatens to return the country to a stand-off position between two rival authorities.
Stephanie Williams, the U.N. Advisor on Libya, met on Tuesday with Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias in Rome for discussion regarding the Libyan situation.
Italy’s Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio and U.N. Advisor on Libya Stephanie Williams met in Rome on Monday for talks on the situation in Libya, according a statement by the Italian top diplomat.
The Spokesperson for the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Farhan Haq, said that no specific name has been proposed to replace the former UN envoy to Libya, Jan Kubis, who resigned two months ago, noting that the most important task now is to achieve elections in Libya.
The Security Council on Monday approved another “technical rollover” for the mandate of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) as council members could not find consensus on a substantive mandate renewal.
Libya’s political rivals should stop conducting musical chairs to stay in power and focus instead on preparing for nationwide elections to be held by June, the U.N. Special Adviser Stephanie Williams said.