First Independent Mena Newspaper
The UN Security Council held a meeting yesterday on the situation in Libya. The issue of the difficult appointment of a new special envoy to Libya was widely discussed. The post has been vacant since the resignation of Slovakian Jan Kubis eight months ago. The international community, strongly divided, cannot agree on a new envoy. […]
Italy’s top diplomat Luigi Di Maio has reiterated the need to appoint a new UN Special Envoy for Libya, which he deemed to be a “decisive step”, Libya Update reports. Di Maio sounded the alarm in a testimony before the chamber of deputies arguing that “the appointment of a strong UN envoy allows for firm […]
Veteran Algerian diplomat Ramtane Lamamra, whom the U.S block to become UN Special Envoy in Libya, has been appointed board member of Swedish state-founded Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) think-tank. SIPRI in statement on Thursday, announced the appointment of the former foreign minister who will join seven other board members. “We are extremely honoured […]
The United States has opposed the choice of former Algerian foreign minister Ramtane Lamamra as UN Special Envoy to crisis-hit neighboring Libya to replace Lebanese Ghassan Salame, who resigned in March. A UN diplomat who asked not be named because not allowed to speak on the matter told AFP that during Wednesday UN closed session […]