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Informal comments to the media by Ghassan Salame, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on the latest situation in Libya. Transcript of SRSG for Libya…

TUNIS, 07 January 2020 – UNSMIL convened yesterday a meeting of 19 Libyan economic experts representing the main Libyan financial and economic institutions as well as the different economic sectors. The experts, who took part…

Tripoli, 08 January 2020 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, Ghassan Salame, welcomes recent calls for a ceasefire in Libya by a number of…

تحيي بعثة الأمم المتحدة للدعم في ليبيا من جديد استجابة مختلف الاطراف في ليبيا لدعوة العديد من الدول والمنظمات الدولية والإقليمية لوقف إطلاق النار الذي يفتح الباب وسيعا امام انجاح المؤتمر الدولي المزمع عقده في برلين في القريب…

TRIPOLI, 17 January 2020 - Six months ago, Siham Sergewa, an elected member of the House of Representatives, was seized at night from her home in the heavily fortified Buhedima District of Benghazi. Since her violent…

Chancellor Merkel, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, We are here for an urgent and pressing reason: to stop Libya’s downward spiral. I thank Chancellor Merkel for bringing us together to support efforts to end the conflict…

I would like to express again my gratitude to the Germany authorities and Chancellor Merkel for their efforts in the past few months in order to push this process forward. This started I could say in a meeting I had the…

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) deeply regrets the continued blatant violations of the arms embargo in Libya, even after the commitments made in this regard by concerned countries during the International…

TRIPOLI/ GENEVA (27January 2020) –In a new report on the July 2019 airstrikes in Libya that killed at least 53 migrants and refugees at the Tajoura detention centre – one of the deadliest incidents since a new round of…

Geneva, 3 February 2020 - The 5+5 Libyan Joint Military Commission is starting its meeting under the auspices of the United Nations in Geneva today. Five senior officers appointed by the Government of National Accord (GNA)…

The Special Representative: Thank you very much, good morning everybody. I am very grateful for your presence this morning. I am also grateful for my colleagues in the UN Geneva for their extreme dedication and help and I am…

Tripoli – 2020. UNSMIL condemns the destruction of the Zawit Bin Issa, Sufi shrine in the city of Sirte on 5 February 2020 and the reported arrest of a number of Sufis in Sirte. UNSMIL recalls that the incidents appear to…