Hommam Al Nassim 
Political analysts said that US interventions and suspicious assignments within UN circles will not bring good to Libyans, pointing out that there are those who put obstacles in order not to replace the government of Abdul Hamid Dabaiba.
Political analyst Miftah al-Qiloushi pointed out that the resignation of Abdullah Batelli as the UN envoy to Libya was expected last month, after Stephanie Khoury was assigned to be the American upper hand.
Al-Qiloushi stressed in a press statement that Bathili, like his predecessors, did not present anything new to the Libyan scene in his tenure, except for more complexity after the failure of successive initiatives.
According to the political analyst, the resigned UN envoy tried to repeat the experience of his predecessors by calling for a new dialogue on a five-year and then six-way table, but it failed after placing obstacles in front of it so as not to replace the Dabaiba government with another that extends its control over Libyan territory and holds elections.
In the context, political analyst Hossam al-Din al-Abdali said that since the appointment of Abdullah Bathili as a UN envoy in September 2022, he led dialogues and tried to bring views closer, but the situation was different on the ground, as there are armed groups in western Libya and a national army in its east, not to mention the presence of foreign forces on the ground.
Abdali added: “Batelli stumbled at several times, including when he had an idea to establish a high-level committee to oversee the formation of a new government and lead Libya to elections, and politicians were able to maneuver at that time, and he had at that time given a briefing in the Security Council, the House of Representatives and the Supreme Council of State agreed on electoral laws, and it was only months until the two houses of Representatives and the Supreme Council of State disagreed, and those laws were beaten against the wall, and then Bathili then turned to try to bring views closer. He called the actors to a five-member table and for other reasons Bathili failed to bring them together because they were dissatisfied with the division of the opposite table and Pateley kept trying until he found a dead end.”
He considered that this resignation is not a failure in itself as much as there is another party intervening, since the assignment of the American Stephen Khoury then knew that the days of Bathili are numbered, and that the United States will intervene as usual as it intervened in the past in the assignment of Stephanie Williams as a replacement for the former envoy Ghassan Salameh has led the scene in a replay of the same scenario now.
The political analyst confirmed in an interview with Sputnik that “the coming days will lead the Deputy UN envoy Khoury dialogue and will pressure everyone in the scene through the arrival of those who pushed her to this position at this particular time.”
It is noteworthy that the spokesman for the United Nations, Stephane Dujarric, announced the acceptance of Secretary-General Antonio Guterres resignation submitted by Abdullah Bathili from his post as UN envoy to Libya.
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