UN Mission in Libya Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/un-mission-in-libya/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 25 Feb 2020 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 UN Mission in Libya Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/un-mission-in-libya/ 32 32 Libyan rivals to turn ceasefire into formal deal https://jjcornish.com/2020/02/libyan-rivals-to-turn-ceasefire-into-formal-deal/ Tue, 25 Feb 2020 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2020/02/libyan-rivals-to-turn-ceasefire-into-formal-deal/ Wrapping up talks in Geneva, delegates from Libya’s rival administrations have agreed to turn a tottering ceasefire into a formal deal. They’ve sent their draft back to their principals in Tripoli and Benghazi for approval. If President Fayez al Sarraj of the Government of National Accord and Khalifa Haftar of the  Libyan National Army say […]

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]]> Wrapping up talks in Geneva, delegates from Libya’s rival administrations have agreed to turn a tottering ceasefire into a formal deal.

They’ve sent their draft back to their principals in Tripoli and Benghazi for approval.

If President Fayez al Sarraj of the Government of National Accord and Khalifa Haftar of the  Libyan National Army say OK to their delegates proposals, the Geneva meeting will be reconvened.

It would facilitate the safe return of hundreds of thousands of  civilians to their areas and stop Libya from sliding into a proxy war involving Turkey, Russia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates.

Military observers would be appointed and backed by the UN Mission in Libya.

The deal should also stop attacks on Tripoli by Haftar’s troops. 

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