News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

04 February 2015 - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) strongly condemns the attack carried out by armed groups operating under the Alshuruq Operation in the Oil Crescent area on Tuesday 03 February 2015, reportedly causing many casualties. The attack constitutes a major break in…

Tunis, 4 February 2015 – UNICEF and Taher Azzawi Charity Organization signed an agreement to provide psychosocial support for 800 internally displaced families in Tripoli, Libya. “UNICEF partnership with the Libyan civil society is crucial for the well being of the children in Libya,” said Mr…

Click here to read the statement issued about this meeting on 20 January 2015, which includes the concluding statement.

09 February 2015 - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) is facilitating a meeting of Libyan political dialogue to end the country’s political and security crisis. The meeting will take place in Libya later this week. The specific venue and exact timing of this round are subject to…

We are publishing today a report*, which will be formally presented to the Human Rights Council in March, describing the situation of human rights in Libya during 2014. It paints a bleak picture of increasing turmoil and lawlessness, fanned by a multitude of heavily armed groups amid a broadening…

The situation on the ground can be described through many different ways, most of the Libyans I believe are pushing us and their political representatives and militias to negotiate. A minority, but a noisy minority and people who hold weapons and have power, in some cases are against. I think the…

Ghedames, Libya - 11 February 2015 - A political dialogue round facilitated by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) convened in the City of Ghedames on Wednesday 11 February 2015. For the first time, all invited participants attended the talks, which were conducted in a constructive…

15 February 2015 - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) strongly condemns the killing of Egyptian nationals in Libya at the hands of ISIS terrorists. This terrorist crime against these guest workers from neighboring Egypt should be rejected and denounced by all Libyans. UNSMIL offers…

15 February 2015 - The members of the Security Council strongly condemned the heinous and cowardly apparent murder in Libya of twenty-one Egyptian Coptic Christians by an affiliate of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ Daesh). This crime once again demonstrates the brutality of ISIL…

Mr. President, Distinguished Members of the Council, Excellencies 1. I am grateful for the opportunity to brief the Council today on the situation in Libya at this critical juncture. 2. Let me begin by expressing my condolences and sympathy to all the families of victims of terrorism and extremism…

20 February 2014 – The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) strongly deplores the terrorist bombings in the City of Al-Qubbah in eastern Libya, causing many casualties. The bombings which targeted a number of locations in Al-Qubbah, hometown of Speaker of the House of Representatives…

New York, 20 February 2015 - The Secretary-General condemns in the strongest terms today's multiple bombing attacks in the eastern Libyan city of Qubbah, which reportedly left dozens dead. He expresses his deepest condolences to the families of the victims of these deplorable acts and to the Libyan…