UN ceasefire monitors arrive in Libya
The first group of international ceasefire monitors has arrived in Libyan capital, Tripoli, in a serious step aiming at the achievement of peace and holding the elections which are scheduled for December this year.
First group
United Nations Envoy to Libya, Ján Kubiš, announced the start of the
deployment of the first group of UN ceasefire monitors.
He said the deployment of the UN
monitors is an important step that would contribute significantly to creating
the necessary conditions for the success of the action plan.
He highlighted UN support to for the
plan. Kubiš said the UN the Libyan
military institutions could be unified in the coming period.
As a move, he said, this would
advance disarmament efforts and the reform the Libyan security establishment.
He said the first group of monitors would
be deployed in Tripoli until arrangements are made for their deployment in
Sirte.
Kubiš pointed
out that the observers would work in co-operation with the 5 + 5 Joint Military
Committee, and the Libyan parties concerned under Security Council no. 2570 for
2021.
Head of the Libyan Presidential
Council, Mohamed al-Manfi, and Prime Minister, Abdulhamid
al-Dabaiba, discussed with the 5 + 5 Joint Military Committee on October
20 plans for the exit of mercenaries and foreign fighters from Libya.
United Nations Under-Secretary-General
for Political Affairs, Rosemary A. DiCarlo, said she met
with the parties of the members of the committee in Benghazi and Tripoli.
She congratulated them on the
committee's success in adopting the action plan to remove foreign forces,
foreign fighters and mercenaries from Libya.
