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UNSMIL’s Head of security Paolo Serra has been in Tripoli to discuss security with militias and Libya Dawn administration for the establishment of the Libyan agreed Government of National Accord (GNA), UNSMIL boss, Kobler said on Sunday. Italian military officer, Paolo Serra in Tripoli will meet with Tripoli strongmen and militias still controlling of the […]
Head of UNSMIL Martin Kobler and Libyan National Army self-style Chief of Staff Khalifa Hafter Wednesday in a meeting agreed that it was time to erase terrorist organizations creating havoc in Libya adding that only a united Libyan army could achieve the daunting task, reports say. Even though much of the meeting has not been […]
Tunisia and the UN once again called on Libyan political protagonists to urgently ink the UN-brokered National Dialogue Agreement in the face of growing instability and the giant strides of the Islamic State in the North African country. Meeting all factions for the first time, Head of the UNSMIL Martin Kobler reminded the protagonists of […]
Libyan rival factions Saturday signed in Tunis a declaration principle aiming at ending four years of conflict in the oil-rich North African country. The one-off meeting between the General National Congress negotiating committee head by the deputy President of the Tripoli body, Mohammed Awad Abdul-Sadiq and the House of Representatives of Tobruk led by the […]
A meeting of Libyan mayors, municipal representatives and political figures Thursday in Gharian urged for unity and stressed that Libyan problems must be settled by Libyans, rejecting international interference in Libyan internal affairs. The gathering called for domestic solutions to Libyan problems and urged all Libyans to start a reconciliation dialogue. Members of the Tobruk-based […]
The Libyan international recognized government rejected the EU-funded Cloud News Agency saying the agency is a weapon of colonial domination. Omer Al-Ghawari, Head of Information and Culture Authority in the eastern government of Abdullah Al-Thanni criticized the newly established news agency calling the reporters and editors EU’s puppets and spies and traitors. He reportedly called […]
Libyan political protagonists are facing a hard choice or rather left without a choice after UNSMIL new head Martin Kobler said he would not reopen fresh talks on the final agreement reached by his predecessor Bernardino Leon and that the text was not amendable. Kobler spent the week urging Libyan political protagonists to endorse the […]
German veteran diplomat Martin Kobler who has been appointed few weeks ago Head of the UNSMIL and Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Libya, in replacement of Spanish diplomat Bernardino Leon, is assuming office as of Tuesday, November 17. The new UNSMIL chief faces a daunting task in view of the large rifts […]
U.N Secretary General Ban Ki-moon confirmed on Wednesday that veteran German diplomat, Marti Kobler, who has more than 30 years of experience in senior positions in the German government and the UN, will replace Bernadino Leon as his Special Representative and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL). Kobler is to replace Leon […]
German diplomat and former head of UN’s largest peace keeping mission in DR Congo Martin Kobler is set to replace Spanish diplomat Bernardino Leon as head of the UNSMIL struggling to clinch an accord between rival Libyans, UN Chief Ban Ki-Moon announced in a letter addressed Wednesday to the UN Security Council. After heading UN’s […]