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STORY: UN / LIBYA
TRT: 02:41
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH /ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 19 JUNE 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters
19 JUNE 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdoulaye Bathily, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL):
“The political process in Libya, as you see, once again, reached a critical state. Let me reiterate what has been my consistent message in Libya. Successful elections require not just a legal framework, but also a political agreement that ensures buy-in, and inclusion of all major stakeholders.”
4. Med shot, Council President
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdoulaye Bathily, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL):
“Without such compromises, the contested issues are likely to take the electoral process into a cul-de-sac like in 2021, which resulted in further polarization and even the destabilization of the country. I therefore, call on this Council to increase pressure on relevant actors in and use your collective and individual leverage to ensure that they demonstrate the required political will to take the country to successful elections.”
6. Wide shot, Council
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Taher M. T. Elsonni, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Libya:
“We are confident that with the necessary goodwill, we can overcome this vicious circle and we can start building a stable state. The Libyans, ladies and gentlemen, are in a state of anger and frustration. They see that the dream of holding elections is dispelling for the second time. Therefore, do not give up on them.”
8. Wide shot, Council
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Taher M. T. Elsonni, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Libya:
“We all know the conditions which led to the freezing of the Libyan assets and Libyan money in 2011. Those measures were supposed to aim at protecting Libyan assets. But we have also witnessed the measures that were taken by some countries afterwards and how this issue has been politicized for the past 12 years, leading to huge losses and to the depletion of these resources.”
10. Wide shot, end of meeting
The United Nations top official in Libya today (19 Jun) said the political process in the country has “once again, reached a critical state” and stressed that “successful elections require not just a legal framework, but also a political agreement that ensures buy-in, and inclusion of all major stakeholders.”
Abdoulaye Bathily, who is the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said, “without such compromises, the contested issues are likely to take the electoral process into a cul-de-sac like in 2021, which resulted in further polarization and even the destabilization of the country.”
Bathily called on the Council “to increase pressure on relevant actors in and use your collective and individual leverage to ensure that they demonstrate the required political will to take the country to successful elections.”
Libyan Ambassador Taher M. T. Elsonni for his part said Libyans “are in a state of anger and frustration” as they “see that the dream of holding elections is dispelling for the second time.”
He called on the international community to “not give up on them.”
On the sanctions regime pursuant to resolution 1970, Elsonni said, “we all know the conditions which led to the freezing of the Libyan assets and Libyan money in 2011. Those measures were supposed to aim at protecting Libyan assets. But we have also witnessed the measures that were taken by some countries afterwards and how this issue has been politicized for the past 12 years, leading to huge losses and to the depletion of these resources.”
The chair of the 1970 Libya Sanctions Committee, Ambassador Kimihiro Ishikane of Japan presented the periodic report on the committee’s activities to the Council.
