News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

10 November 2014 - On Sunday 09 November, I embarked on another mission in Libya, to continue the consultations with the Libyan stakeholders on the way forward and how to put the political transition back on track. I met in al-Baida on Sunday with the Chairman of the Constitution-Drafting Assembly…

Tripoli, 11 November 2014 - Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya Bernardino Leon traveled to Tripoli on Tuesday 11 November 2014 as part of his efforts to listen to the views of the parties and various stakeholders on the way forward and to discuss the possibility of convening…

Thursday 13 November - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) strongly condemns the recent violence in eastern and western Libya, including the bombings in Tobruk, Tripoli, Al-Baida and Shahat, as well as the ongoing fighting in the city of Benghazi and in Jabal Nafusa, including the…

13 November 2014 - The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist bomb attacks against the embassies of Egypt and the United Arab Emirates in Tripoli, Libya, on 13 November. The members of the Security Council condemned all acts of violence against diplomatic…

Twenty trainers from Libya’s High National Elections Commission participate in a workshop on electoral training delivered by UNSMIL and UNDP, taking place in Tunisia between 17 and 21 November 2014. The workshop employs the learning system “Building Resources in Democracy, Governance and Elections,”…

Geneva, 14.11.2014 - This is a summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at today’s Palais des Nations press briefing in Geneva. Intense fighting among rival armed groups in Libya’s eastern towns of Benghazi and Derna, as well as in the country’s southeast at Ubari and in the west at Kikla…

Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Rupert Colville Location: Geneva Date: 14 November 2014 Libya We are alarmed by the escalating violence in Libya with reports of increased human rights abuses, beheadings of activists and the recent closure of the country's national human…

19 November 2014 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Bernardino Leon has announced that the different parties to the conflict in Benghazi have agreed to an unconditional humanitarian truce in the affected…

The UN Electoral Support Team in Libya (comprised of UN Support Mission in Libya and UN Development Programme) is delivering a technical workshop in Tunisia targeting ten HNEC staff from its candidate nomination and data management sections. The event, which is taking place between 18 and 21…

Zarzis, 24 November 2014 – The Women’s Empowerment Section (WES) of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) organized a five-day pilot workshop on Women and Security–Protecting Women’s Security Against Violence in Conflict Zones. The 17-21 November 2014 workshop in Zarzis, Tunisia…

25 November 2014 -Against the backdrop of the dangerous escalation in military operations in Libya and on-going UN mediation efforts to contain the situation, on 25 November SRSG Leon spoke by phone to Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni, Head of Libya’s interim government. The two discussed possible…

New York, 25 November 2014 - The Secretary-General is deeply concerned by the recent escalation of violence in Libya, including the air strikes in Tripoli and the Nafousa Mountains in the west, as well as in Benghazi and its environs in the east. He calls on all parties to end these attacks and…