UN Security Council demands the withdrawal of mercenaries from Libya

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United Nations, (ST) – The UN Security Council called for the withdrawal of all mercenaries and foreign fighters from Libyan territories.

The council said in a statement unanimously issued by its 15 members at the end of a closed-door video conference, transmitted by the French Press Agency, that it calls for the withdrawal of all foreign fighters and mercenaries from Libya in line with the ceasefire agreement reached by the Libyan parties on the 23rd of last October and the commitments of the participants at the Berlin conference in January and the relevant Council decisions.

Media reports documented the transfer of the regime of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of thousands of terrorist mercenaries from northern Syria to Libya, accompanied by Turkish soldiers and with support and funding from Qatar to support the militias of the Fayez al-Sarraj government.

The spokesman for the Libyan National Army, Ahmed Al-Mesmari, also confirmed that the Turkish regime’s intelligence services are transferring “ISIS” and “Al-Nusra” terrorists from Syria to Libya.

Security Council members stressed “the importance of having a reliable and effective ceasefire monitoring mechanism led by Libya.”

At the end of December, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, will submit to the Security Council proposals for the establishment of this mechanism, which will work under the auspices of the United Nations.

The Security Council gave the Secretary-General of the United Nations the green light to appoint Bulgarian Nikolay Mladenov and Norwegian Tor Winsland as new envoys of the international organization to Libya and the Middle East, respectively.

The appointment of Mladenov comes ten months after the resignation of the Lebanese Ghassan Salameh from the position of the United Nations envoy to Libya, in a step he attributed at the time to health reasons.

The appointment of the Bulgarian diplomat comes after the United States rejected two African candidates to assume this position and imposed on its partners in the Security Council to divide the position into two parts which are a UN envoy assisted by a coordinator for this small UN mission, which amounts to about 23People.

Mladenov has been the United Nations envoy to the Middle East since 2015.

Raghda Sawas

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