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The Security Council expands Irene’s mission to inspect ships
Germany called for an end to the continuous and flagrant violations of the arms embargo imposed on Libya and expressed its hope to reach a ceasefire agreement as soon as possible.
Germany expressed at the United Nations its hope that a videoconference on Libya, to be organized on Monday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, will lead to “accelerating efforts to achieve a ceasefire” between the two parties to the conflict. .
Germany’s deputy delegate to the United Nations, Günter Suter, told reporters that “this meeting comes at a delicate time and as we recently recorded encouraging developments in Libya,” in the hope that a “strong message” will be delivered on Monday. .
Germany will demand the renewal of the commitments made at the beginning of the year, especially their implementation. All the countries that attended the Berlin summit in January, in addition to the countries of the region, will participate in the meeting, but without the participation of the parties in conflict.
Sutter explained: “We hope to stop the persistent and flagrant violations of the arms embargo” imposed on Libya since 2011, as well as “strengthen” the role of the United Nations as “central mediator in the political dialogue in Libya.”
For its part, the United Nations is struggling to appoint a new envoy to replace the Lebanese Ghassan Salameh, who resigned last March.
Diplomats said African countries are demanding that the new envoy be from the continent and are opposed to appointing Bulgarian Nikolai Mladenov, who is currently the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process.
The United States and Europe support Mladenov’s appointment, but an envoy is unlikely to be named by Monday, according to the same sources.
And it renewed the Security Council in a unanimous vote on Friday to allow one year of UN member states to search for and even detain ships off the coast of Libya suspected of being involved in migrant smuggling.
The decision will be implemented mainly by European countries or through the air and maritime mission “IRENI”. Sutter said in this regard that “the European mission will continue to monitor and control” the ships off Libya.
