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Former UN envoy to the Middle East, Bulgarian diplomat Nikolay Mladenov, has announced that he will not head the organization’s mission in Libya. This was announced by a UN spokesperson, quoted by Reuters.
According to the spokesman, Mladenov cited “personal and family reasons.”
The news that it has been approved by the Security Council was announced last week. Mladenov’s election was announced after months of disagreement in the Council, where some countries had a different idea of who UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres should appoint as his envoy.
The former Bulgarian foreign minister, who since 2013 was first the UN coordinator for Iraq and later headed the mission dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, was due to begin his term in Libya next year.
His position would be extremely responsible, at a difficult time when the international community is trying to control the chaos in Libya after 10 years of war and a fragile truce.
Mladenov left the current mission, in which both sides praised his attempts at dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians, on December 31.
