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EUNAVFOR MED IRINI
European Union Military Operation in the Mediterranean
Council Decision: 03/20
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AU Mission in Libya
African Union Mission in Libya
Authorization date: 02/20
EUBAM Libya
European Union Border Assistance Mission in Libya (EU)
Authorization date: 05/13
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UNSMIL
United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UN-led)
Authorization date: 09/11
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Libya’s parliament-appointed Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha said that armed groups backing him have withdrawn from positions around Tripoli, after the UN warned of a new escalation in the divided country.
Libya's parliament rejects any "interference" in its work, its speaker told the UN envoy on Monday after she had offered to mediate in a push for elections.
The Libyan Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, told Thursday the UNSMIL in a letter explaining his plan for the upcoming period of Libya’s political process that his government will not leave until it holds parliamentary elections on June 30, 2022; no matter what the challenges are.
World body says process that saw Fathi Bashagha elected as new PM ‘fell short of expected standards’.
Libyan lawmakers confirmed a new transitional government Tuesday, a move that is likely to lead to parallel administrations and fuel mounting tensions in a country that has been mired in conflict for the past decade.
Prime Minister of the government of national unity (GNU) Abdul Hamid Debaibah says he would only hand over power to an authority "elected by the people."
Moscow is throwing its support behind new Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha and its belief that he can "unite Libyan society."
The spokesman for the Government of National Unity, Mohammed Hammouda, criticized Thursday the position of the Advisor of the Secretary General of the United Nations, Stephanie Williams, saying that her support for the stances of certain parties which are wishing to postpone elections and extend their mandates contradicted her statements in support of holding elections as soon as possible in Libya.
Libya was supposed to hold elections early this year. Instead, it now has two rival political administrations — a return of the divisions of the past.
The UN chief is “following closely” the latest political crisis unfolding in Libya, which threatens to return the country to a stand-off position between two rival authorities, following the failure to hold presidential elections in December.