News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

18 February 2021 - Special Envoy Ján Kubiš, ASG/UNSMIL Coordinator Raisedon Zenenga and ASG/Humanitarian Coordinator Georgette Gagnon met today with President of the Presidency Council designate Mr.Mohamed Almenfi and PC member designate Mr. Abdullah El Lafi in Tripoli. He congratulated them on…

BENGHAZI, 19 February 2021 - As part of his first visit to Libya where he met with a large number of Libyan officials and interlocutors, Special Envoy for Libya and Head of UNSMIL Ján Kubiš arrived today in Benghazi. The Special Envoy held a meeting with General Khalifa Haftar in the presence of the…

TRIPOLI, 20 February 2021 - UN Secretary-General Special Envoy for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Ján Kubiš, continued his meetings with Libyan officials and stakeholders in Tripoli. The meetings aim to project the continuity of the UN-facilitated , political…

Tripoli, 21 February 2021 - Yesterday evening, Special Envoy Ján Kubiš had a substantive telephone call with the President of the Presidency Council designate, Mr. Mohammed al-Manfi, and discussed the way forward on the holding of a House of Representatives vote of confidence session. He reiterated…

TRIPOLI, 22 February 2021 - From 14 to 21 February, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Ján Kubiš, held discussions in Libya with a wide range of interlocutors in various parts of the country, including with the…

22 February 2021 - UN Secretary-General Special Envoy for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Ján Kubiš, continued his meetings and telephone calls with Libyan and international officials. Yesterday, 21 February, Special Envoy Kubiš, called Minister of Interior…

The Political Working Group (PWG) of the International Follow-up Committee on Libya (IFCL) held a meeting on 25 February 2021 to review the progress achieved by the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum and the efforts of the unified interim executive authority, and to consider how participants of the…

Tripoli, 02 March 2021 - UNSMIL takes note of ongoing preparations to convene the House of Representatives (HoR) in the city of Sirte, scheduled to be held on 8 March. Following consultations with international partners, UNSMIL and its partners strongly encourage the HoR to meet as scheduled to…

GENEVA, 02 March 2021 – On 25 February the Special Envoy (SE) of the UN Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMI) Jan Kubis briefed the Senior Official Meeting (SOM) of the International Follow-Up Committee on Libya (IFCL) about the progress made in…

TRIPOLI, 4 March 2021 - In accordance with the Secretary-General’s recommendation in his report of 29 December 2020 and subsequent to the Security Council’s request of 4 February, the United Nations deployed a small advance team to Libya earlier yesterday. The advance team will help advance UN…

As part of his continuous efforts to mobilise support to the three-track intra-Libyan dialogue process, the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Ján Kubiš traveled yesterday to Moscow to meet with high-level Russian officials. The…

The Co-chairs of the International Follow-up Committee on Libya (IFCL) Economic Working Group (EU, Egypt, US), with the UN Support Mission to Libya (UNSMIL), express their concern regarding the situation in Libya’s electricity sector. Without a swift allocation of funding to undertake urgent repairs…