AA/ Tripoli / Walid Abdallah
The Special Representative of the UN Secretary General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (Manul) Abdoulaye Bathily, arrived in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, on Friday.
This is the Senegalese diplomat’s first visit to this country plagued by political rivalry.
According to the Anadolu Agency correspondent, the new UN envoy, who officially took office on September 29, succeeding Slovak Jan Kubis, was greeted on his arrival at Mitiga international airport by Libyan Foreign Ministry Under-Secretary for International Cooperation, Omar Keti.
Bathily, had inaugurated his mission by visiting the Libyan delegation in New York two weeks earlier, where he met with the permanent representative of Libya to the United Nations, Ambassador Taher al-Sunni. La Manul, for its part, announced that its leader will officially take office on September 25, 2022.
In a statement, the UN mission in Libya had indicated that Bathily will work from Tripoli, and that he will begin a series of meetings with senior UN officials and representatives of member states in New York before his arrived in Libya at the beginning of October.
Abdoulaye Bathily will have the difficult task of resolving the crisis in Libya, which has resulted in a conflict between two governments, the first headed by Fathi Bachagha, who was appointed by Parliament, and the second, the government of Abdulhamid Dbeibeh, who refuses to cede power except to a government duly mandated by a newly elected parliament.
*Translated from Arabic by Majdi Ismail
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