The U.N. Advisor on Libya, Stephanie Williams, met on Friday with a delegation from Libya’s Tuareg community in Tripoli.
Williams said that the delegates requested UN advocacy for several issues, including the inability of thousands of Tuareg to receive national identification numbers.
This prevented the Tuareg community from “practicing their political rights, receiving salaries for retired personnel, obtaining passports, or having full access to education and health facilities,” Williams stated via Twitter.
“The Tuareg representatives also raised concerns about their perceived exclusion from successive governments and highlighted the impact of this marginalization on reconciliation and stability in Libya,” she said.
“I expressed my full support for the Tuareg community and undertook to convey their concerns to the relevant Libyan authorities during my upcoming engagements,” the U.N. diplomat concluded.
1/5 Today, in Tripoli, I was honored to receive a large delegation from Libya's Tuareg community who requested UN advocacy for several issues, including on behalf of the thousands of Tuareg who have not received the national identification number which has prevented them from.. > pic.twitter.com/TmGVqR1H1Z
— Stephanie Turco Williams (@SASGonLibya) February 18, 2022