Hassan Al-Werfalli (Capitals)
The UAE welcomed the unanimous adoption of Security Council Resolution 2652 yesterday on Libya, which renewed for 12 months permission for member states to inspect ships on the high seas off the coast of Libya, if they are suspected of smuggling migrants or human trafficking.
On the other hand, the Libyan youth movement “July” is mobilizing to protest in the capital, Tripoli, and a number of Libyan cities, tomorrow, Saturday, to demand the holding of presidential and legislative elections, the adoption of a constitution for the country, and the overthrow of political entities, as confirmed by Shafiq Omar, the official spokesman for the “July” movement. In exclusive statements to Al-Ittihad.
Omar Shafiq stressed that the demonstrations will be a continuation of the previous demands they made for the necessity of holding elections in the country, and to protest once morest the existing living situation in the country, amid the rivalry of the politicians who are at the forefront of the scene.
Angry demonstrations took place in several Libyan cities, last July, in protest once morest the deteriorating living conditions in the country, including the continued power outages and high prices.
In Tripoli, the Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of the Government of National Unity, Abdel Hamid al-Dabaiba, discussed with the senior adviser to the British Ministry of Defense in North Africa and the Middle East Lieutenant-General Joy-Martin Sampson, in the presence of the British Ambassador to Libya, technical cooperation between the defense ministries of the two countries, and the need to activate a number of programs in the two countries. The field of training, and the transfer of expertise by the State of Britain.
On the other hand, Dabaiba stressed the need for everyone’s goal to be decentralization in the country, stressing the need to support the holding of elections through various activities implemented within the municipalities, to clarify matters to the Libyans regarding the need to achieve this entitlement, adding: “There is no alternative to stability without elections.”
This came during a meeting held by Dabaiba in the cabinet meeting with mayors of municipalities, members of the Supreme Council of Local Administration, in the presence of the ministers of local government, transportation, finance, housing and construction, undersecretaries of the Ministry of Local Government and heads of executive bodies.
Libya is witnessing a political struggle over the executive authority between the government of “national unity”, headed by Dabaiba, and the government mandated by the Libyan parliament, headed by Fathi Bashagha, at a time when the Libyan Presidential Council calls for resorting to the provincial system in the administrative division of the country, to get rid of centralization.
Politically, the United Nations Mission to Libya announced that its Senegalese President, Abdallah Batili, has officially assumed his duties as the new Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Libya, and head of the mission as of September 25, in line with Security Council resolution 2629 of 2022.
The United Nations mission confirmed, in a tweet via its account on Twitter, that the Special Representative of the Secretary-General will start conducting a series of meetings with senior United Nations officials and representatives of Member States in New York, before his arrival in Libya in early October, stressing that Batelli will work From Libya, with support from Rizdon Zeninga, as Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Political Affairs, and Georgette Gagno, as Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Resident Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs.
In Sirte, the Prime Minister-designate from the Libyan Parliament, Fathi Bashagha, continued the ongoing maintenance work for his government headquarters in the Ouagadougou halls complex in the city of Sirte, accompanied by a number of ministers, in preparation for the government to start its work from there.
The Government Information Office said that Bashagha, accompanied by his two deputies, Salem Al-Zadma and Khaled Al-Osta, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Hafez Kaddour, Sports Abdul Salam Ghuwaila, the State for Prime Minister and Cabinet Affairs Muhammad Farhat, and the Mayor of Sirte Municipality Mukhtar Al-Madani, inspected the progress of maintenance work at government and service headquarters in the city of Sirte.
