The Tripoli-based General National Congress (GNC) has today launched an alternative ‘‘Libyan-Libyan’’ proposal to the UN-brokered Libyan Political Agreement and its Government of National Accord (GNA) signed in Morocco’s Skhirat on 17th December.
The House of Representatives (HoR) failed to officially meet today again as it was unable to secure a quorum of members.
Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) Prime Minister-designate Faiez Serraj met Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in Rome on Monday.
The House of Representatives (HoR) was forced to postpone its session today due to the lack of a quorum.
Today’s session was called by the majority group in the hope of voting in support of the UN-brokered Libyan Political Agreement (LPA) signed in the Moroccan city of Skhirat on 17th December. The LPA is to lead to the formation of a Government of National Accord (GNA) to be led by Prime Minister-designate Faiez Al-Serraj.
The European Commission has announced that it has finalised a new assistance package for Libya worth a total of € 6.6 million – with € 100 million available once the Government of National Accord (GNA) is in place..
The UN Security Council this evening gave unanimous backing to the Government of National Accord to be formed by Faiez Serraj and demanded that the international community have no further dealings anyone else in Libya.
Members of the Misrata’s Council of Elders were in east Libyan town of Guba yesterday to build bridges with their counterparts from the region in support of the “Libya-Libya” Dialogue being pursued by the presidents of the both the General National Congress (GNC) and the House of Representatives (HoR).
The presidents of the General National Congress (GNC) and the House of Representatives (HoR), Nuri Abu Sahmain and Ageela Saleh, are reportedly to be planning a second meeting, possibly in Oman tomorrow, Wednesday.
Tripoli was the elephant that was very much not in the room when 24 municipal councils today signed up for the Government of National Accord at a Tunis ceremony hosted by UNSMIL chief Martin Kobler.
In the harshest attack to date on General National Congress (GNC) president Nuri Abu Sahmain, maverick Misratan politician Abdurrahman Sewehli has accused him of damaging the UN-led Libya Dialogue process because of “narrow personal interests”. He accused him too of hypocrisy and of “blindly and madly” believing he was the guardian of the revolution.
The continuing General National Congress in Tripoli and the government it appointed led by Khalifa Ghwell may be firmly opposed to the UN-brokered Libya Political Agreement (LPA) signed last week in Skhirat, as are also the militias who are the real arbiters of power in the city (although a member of
Tripoli was the elephant that was very much not in the room when 24 municipal councils today signed up for the Government of National Accord at a Tunis ceremony hosted by UNSMIL chief Martin Kobler.
Libya Herald Managing Editor met a number of House of Representatives (HoR) members in Tunis yesterday on their way back from signing the Libyan Political Agreement in Skhirat, Morocco.
Just a month after he took over as UNSMIL chief from Bernardino Leon, Martin Kobler watched while the deal, much of which has been hammered out over the past year by members of the Libyan Dialogue, was finally signed.
The agreement brings into being a nine-man presidential council headed by prime minister Faiez Serraj which will form a cabinet to run a Government of National Accord.
The signing of the UN-brokered Libya Dialogue agreement known as the Libyan Political Agreement (LPA) will take place in the Moroccan resort of Skhirat tomorrow rather than today, Wednesday, as planned, Moroccan officials have confirmed.
The delay is said to be caused by the logistical problems of getting as many key players as possible from Libya to Skhirat in time.
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