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STORY: UN / LIBYA
TRT: 02:49
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 18 DECEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, UN Headquarters
18 DECEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, Libyan Ambassador Taher M. El-Sonni
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdoulaye Bathily, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and
Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL):
“For the first time since the elections failed in December 2021, Libya has now a constitutional and legal framework for elections in place, considered technically implementable by the High National electoral Commission. We need to build on this important achievement.”
5. Wide shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdoulaye Bathily, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and
Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL):
“The remaining politically contested issues can only be overcome through a political settlement among the main Libyan institutional stakeholders committing in good faith. To that effect, in November, I formally invited the heads of five key Libyan institutions – the Presidential Council, the House of Representatives, the High Council of State, the Government of National Unity and the Libyan National Army – to a meeting in the coming period.”
7. Various shots, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdoulaye Bathily, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and
Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL):
“Some Libyan leaders continue to drag their feet and do not, for now, show a decisive commitment to end the long-standing stalemate that has caused so much suffering for the ordinary Libyans. Electoral laws alone cannot make elections happen if relevant actors are not genuinely committed to their implementation.”
9. Wide shot, Ambassador El-Sonni addressing Council
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Taher M. El-Sonni, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Libya:
“We reaffirm the importance of achieving a common ground for the success of this dialogue and that all parties should positively engage in the preparatory meetings without any preconditions, and to give priority to the best interest of the Libyan people as the main purpose is to look into the contentious issues and to find a common ground and consensus amongst all to create the environment necessary and conducive to conducting the elections at the as early as possible.”
11. Wide shot, end of meeting
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, today (18 Dec) told the Security Council that “for the first time since the elections failed in December 2021, Libya has now a constitutional and legal framework for elections in place,” and urged stakeholders “to build on this important achievement.”
Bathily said, “the remaining politically contested issues can only be overcome through a political settlement among the main Libyan institutional stakeholders committing in good faith.”
He told the Council that in November, he had formally invited to a meeting the heads of five key Libyan institutions, the Presidential Council (PC), the House of Representatives (HoR), the High Council of State (HCS), the Government of National Unity (GNU) and the Libyan National Army (LNA).
Bathily, who is also the Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), said, “some Libyan leaders continue to drag their feet and do not, for now, show a decisive commitment to end the long-standing stalemate that has caused so much suffering for the ordinary Libyans.”
Electoral laws alone, he stressed, “cannot make elections happen if relevant actors are not genuinely committed to their implementation.”
Libyan Ambassador Taher M. El-Sonni for his part said, “we reaffirm the importance of achieving a common ground for the success of this dialogue and that all parties should positively engage in the preparatory meetings without any preconditions, and to give priority to the best interest of the Libyan people as the main purpose is to look into the contentious issues and to find a common ground and consensus amongst all to create the environment necessary and conducive to conducting the elections at the as early as possible.”
Following six months of armed conflict in Libya in 2011, the United Nations established the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) to support the country's transitional authorities in their post-conflict efforts.
UNSMIL, whose mandate was most recently renewed in resolution 2599 on 30 September 2021, until 31 January 2022, is primarily tasked by the Security Council with supporting an inclusive Libyan political process and security and economic dialogue through mediation and good offices, including supporting the implementation of the Libyan ceasefire agreement of 23 October 2020 and the political road map of 15 November 2020.
