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The situation in Libya - Security Council, 9984th meeting
While the Libyan people have shown remarkable determination to exercise their democratic rights in recent municipal elections, the country remains mired in political deadlock, fragile security, economic hardship and human rights concerns, a senior UN official told the Security Council this afternoon.
Hanna Serwaa Tetteh, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), updated the 15-member Council on the political and economic progress in the North African nation, as outlined in the Secretary-General’s latest report on UNSMIL (document S/2025/509).
“Twenty-six municipalities successfully went to the polls on 16 August in spite of significant challenges,” Ms. Tetteh stated, praising the High National Elections Commission, or HNEC, and security staff for ensuring the process. She urged candidates “to accept the election results as the choices made by their voters”, and called for “the peaceful transfer of power to the newly elected leaders”.
- Briefer: Hanna Serwaa Tetteh, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL)
