News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

Madam President, Ambassador King (St. Vincent and the Grenadines), Excellencies, Since my last briefing on 2 September, we have made substantial progress in the search for peace and stability in Libya. After many years of oppression, division, chaos, misery, and conflict, Libyans are coming together…

Monday, 23 November 2020 - The Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Mission Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Stephanie Williams convened today the first virtual meeting of the second round of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) to discuss the…

The Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General (ASRSG) and Head of the United Mission Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Stephanie Williams convened today the second virtual meeting of the second round of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF). Participants continued discussions and…

Within the preliminary consultative track of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum, the United Nations Support Mission in Libya held, during the month of October, four consultative sessions through visual communication technique with a number of municipal mayors about the current political dialogue…

On 1 December, Economic Working Group (EWG) co-chairs of the International Follow Up Committee for Libya, including Ambassadors of Egypt and the United States, the European Union, and the Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General Stephanie Williams, as well as representatives of the…

I want to remind as I said before, time is not on your side. I would like to alert you to the fact that there is a direct cost for inaction and obstruction. Here are some indicators, I want to alert you to: There now 10 military bases in your country- all over your country - and not in a particular…

UNSMIL strongly condemns the brutal attack yesterday against children as they were leaving school in the city of Al Ajaylat, which led to the killing a 16-year-old boy, Musab Jum'a Dawah Bin Masoud, and injured two other children, all in their school uniforms. The Mission expresses its deepest…

Following the conclusion of the consultation process that took place on Thursday and Friday 3-4 December 2020, during which the members of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) cast votes to select one of the presented proposals for a selection mechanism for the unified executive authority…

‘Rights Commitments Should Be Central in Libya’s Ongoing Political Process’ On International Human Rights Day, the co-chairs of the Working Group on International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights under the Berlin process – the Netherlands, Switzerland and UNSMIL – welcomed the commitments made by…

Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Libya (ASRSG), Stephanie Williams, held yesterday a virtual consultative meeting for the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF), during which participants laid out their views and proposals on the most suitable and…

On 14 and 15 December, ASRSG Stephanie Williams and the co-chairs of the Economic Working Group of the Berlin Process including Egypt, USA and EU, will convene a technical meeting of representatives of Libya's main financial institutions at the UN Office in Geneva to reach an agreement on critical…

GENEVA, 14 December 2020 - Acting Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Libya Stephanie Williams convened today a technical meeting on critical reforms of the Libyan economy. The meeting, co-presided by Egypt, the United States, and the European Union, as co-chairs of the Economic…