MADRID 8 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Secretary General of the UN, António Guterres, held a meeting this Monday with the acting head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Stephanie Koury, about resolving the long political stalemate in Libya, where There are currently two rival administrations that make a transition difficult to put an end to the institutional crisis that opened in 2014 and the instability suffered since the capture and execution in October 2011 of the then Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi.
“Guterres received me today at UN Headquarters in New York. We discussed political and security developments in Libya. The Secretary-General expressed his strong support for UNSMIL’s efforts to facilitate a political process aimed at to resolve the current stalemate,” Koury expressed on his X social network account.
Notably, the previous head of UNSMIL, Abdoulaye Bathily, resigned in mid-April after reporting to the UN Security Council that the country had become “the terrain of fierce rivalry between motivated regional and international actors.” for geopolitical, political and economic interests” and that none of the political actors acted in “good faith” to overcome the current situation.
Despite this, the Libyan House of Representatives (the Parliament based in the east of the country) managed to reach an agreement with the High Council of State (based in Tripoli and validated by the UN) to end the crisis. unleashed within the Central Bank of Libya following the dismissal of its head in August.
Libya is divided into two administrations after the House of Representatives terminated the mandate of Abdul Hamid Dbeibé due to the postponement of the presidential elections in December 2021 and appointed Fazi Bashaga to the position, later suspended from office and replaced by Osama Hamad. Dbeibé rejected the decision and chose to remain in office until elections were held.
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