News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

10 January 2015 – Libyan parties have agreed to hold a new round of political dialogue with a view to ending the country's political and security crisis. The meeting will take place next week and will be hosted by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) at the United Nations Office at…

13 January 2015 - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) is hosting a new round of political dialogue that seeks to end Libya’s deepening political and security crisis, and reach agreement on managing the remainder of the transitional period. The decision to convene these talks follows…

Geneva, 14 January 2015 SRSG: Thank you very much. Good morning or good afternoon, really. It’s a pleasure to be back to Geneva again. We are starting a process, it’s going to be a long process, it’s going to be difficult, but I hope we will have many opportunities to meet and that this relation…

15 January 2015 - The dialogue meeting of Libyan parties hosted by the United Nations Support Missions in Libya (UNSMIL) resumed at the Palais des Nations in Geneva today, Thursday 15 January 2015. Discussions during the first session on Wednesday were constructive and were conducted in a positive…

Geneva, 15 January 2015 - Libyan participants and UNSMIL officials at the political dialogue meeting that the United Nations hosted at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The discussions, which began Wednesday 14 January 2015, were described as constructive and conducted in a positive atmosphere.

15 January 2015 - Participants in the Libyan dialogue hosted by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) concluded two days of intensive discussions at the Palais des Nations in Geneva aimed at finding ways to end their country's political, security and institutional crisis. They…

The members of the Security Council welcomed the 14-15 January round of talks in the Libyan dialogue hosted by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) in Geneva and commended the personal mediation efforts of the Special Representative of the Secretary General Bernardino León. The…

18 January 2015 – The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) welcomes the unilateral announcements by the parties in Libya for a ceasefire to resolve the conflict peacefully through dialogue. The Mission calls on the parties to work with UNSMIL on the specific elements of the ceasefire…

Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya Benardino Leon, in a video message after the first round of Libyan Political Dialogue, looks ahead to substantial discussions in the second round of dialogue next week.

18 January 2015 – The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) welcomes the decision announced today in Tripoli by Spokesman Omar Humeidan to join the new round of talks to reach a political solution to end the fighting. This step broadens the base of support for the process aimed at…

20 January 2015 – The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) expresses concern about the reported breaches of the ceasefire that the parties to the conflict had unilaterally declared earlier. The Mission urges the parties to discuss and commit to speedy concrete measures to consolidate the…

20 January 2015 - Two Libyan women who attended the political dialogue round that was held in Geneva 14-15 January 2015, Naimeh Jibril and Nehad Metig, brief women participants at a gathering of Libyan Women for Peace and Dialogue in Tunis, Tunisia, to support dialogue to resolve their country's…