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The UN Security Council will hold a session on Libya on February 15 to discuss developments in the political situation in the country and the role of the UN mission, the official UN website confirms.
Last December, the Council held a session on Libya, during which UN envoy Abdullah Batele gave a briefing in which he revealed the position of the political parties on his initiative to hold a five-way meeting between the leaders of these parties.
Battelly explained that the leaders “did not decline the invitation to the five-way meeting directly, but some of them set conditions for participation.”
Parties to the dialogue
The five parties are: the speakers of the House of Representatives, Aguila Saleh and the state Mohamed Tekala, the commander of the General Command Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the head of the interim national unity government Abdul Hamid Dabaiba, and the head of the Presidential Council, Mohamed al-Menfi.
Batelli detailed the positions of the five leaders, saying that the Presidential Council, headed by Mohammed Al-Menfi, provided clear and tangible support committed to good faith for the success of the dialogue, while the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aguila Saleh, conditioned his attendance on the need to focus his agenda on the formation of a new government, and rejected the participation of Dabaiba.
He submitted three names of representatives to attend the meeting, despite his rejection of the draft electoral laws published by the House of Representatives, and Dabaiba presented the names of representatives of the Government of National Unity, expressing his readiness to discuss the outstanding issues in the electoral laws, but he categorically refused to hold any discussions on changing the government.
Haftar’s conditions
While Haftar agreed to participate in the dialogue, he conditioned the participation of both the Dbeibeh government and the parliament-appointed government together.
Haftar says the General Command supports the UN mission’s efforts to achieve the aspirations of the Libyan people. The Libyan army chief received Batili earlier this week at his office at the headquarters of the General Command in the Rajma area in Benghazi and discussed with him the political settlement in the country.
Batili Meetings in Western Libya
A week ago, Patele met with more than 20 representatives of the security and military authorities in western Libya in the capital, Tripoli, as part of the UN mission’s efforts to involve all Libyan parties, including political actors, key institutions, notables and cultural components, women, and youth, in efforts to resolve the intractable crisis in Libya.
Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity Abdelhamid Dabaiba accuses the legislature of thwarting the dialogue in the country, saying it is the basis of the dispute because of its approval and annulment of laws in a scene that has become rare, he said.
Dabaiba has stated several times that its conditions revolve around mutual trust, everyone’s willingness to secure elections, fair and enforceable electoral laws, and not allowing parallel tracks.
Observers believe that the five-year initiative launched by the UN special envoy, Abdullah Batelli, to end the political crisis in Libya and pave the way for elections has lost its luster and point to the need for a new political initiative. Experts explain that Libya needs a new initiative with the direct participation of active and influential international powers in Libya such as Russia, China, the United States, the European Union, and Arab countries, taking into account the coordination of the country’s reconstruction, as well as strengthening the capacity of Libyan institutions to manage the country and establish security and stability.