AA / Alger / Aksil Ouali
The Senegalese diplomat, Abdoulaye Bathily has been officially named the new special envoy of the UN secretary general for Libya and head of the United Nations support mission for this country (UNSMIL).
He thus replaces the Slovak Jan Kubis who had resigned from his post in November 2021, that is to say a month before the holding of a presidential election in Libya scheduled for the month of December of the same year before being returned sine die.
The former Senegalese minister will have to try in turn to reconcile the points of view between the brother-enemies in Libya, a country torn apart by power struggles for more than a decade.
This appointment is welcomed in Algiers, which welcomes “a judicious choice” by the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, expressing “his desire to cooperate closely with Abdoulaye Bathily to carry out the noble mission entrusted to him”.
“Algeria welcomes the news of the appointment of Professor Abdoulaye Bathily as Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL).
An eminent diplomat and committed Pan-Africanist, Professor Bathily has to his credit remarkable contributions to works of peace through meritorious efforts to promote negotiated peaceful solutions to complex conflict situations,” the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. statement.
The same source also expressed the position of the Algerian President, Abdelmadjid Tebboune regarding this appointment.
“The President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, who had the opportunity to personally discuss with Professor Bathily the Libyan crisis and other sources of tension in Africa, is delighted with his choice and wishes to assure the new Special Representative for Libya of its full support,” the document stressed.
The Algerian Head of State, added the same source, “congratulated the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, for this judicious choice and the Security Council for the unanimous approval of this appointment by its members. “.
“President Tebboune, also expressed to his brother Macky Sall, President of the Republic of Senegal and Chairman-in-Office of the African Union, his satisfaction for this distinction of a worthy son of Senegal and Africa to lead this mission of peace in Libya with, for the first time, the mobilization of the resources of wisdom, conciliation and good will whose pan-African tradition of living together in harmony attests to the effectiveness”, specified the same source.
And to add: “While warmly congratulating Professor Bathily on his appointment, Algeria expresses its desire to cooperate closely with him to carry out the noble mission entrusted to him. It calls on all Libyan parties to cooperate fully with Professor Bathily and to seize this happy development for a salutary collective leap forward in the interest of the brotherly Libyan people”.
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