The UN Security Council has extended the mandate of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) until January 31, 2025, which expired on October 31.
The resolution stipulated that the UNSMIL mandate would be automatically extended for an additional 9 months if a special representative of the Secretary-General was appointed to head the UNSMIL.
The new UN resolution reaffirms the legitimacy of the Libyan Political Agreement signed in Skhirat on December 17, 2015, as well as the road map approved by the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum during its meetings in Tunisia in November 2020 and Geneva 2021, as well as the updated electoral laws prepared by the joint committee of the House of Representatives and the High Council of State (6+6).
The new UN Security Council resolution also calls for sanctions to be imposed on those who undermine peace efforts in Libya, and demands that the UNSMIL conduct a dialogue between actors to prevent violence and escalation of conflicts.
The UN Security Council also called on the Libyan political institutions to resolve the outstanding contentious political issues related to the elections as soon as possible, to participate fully and transparently in good faith and without preconditions, and to make the necessary concessions to advance negotiations facilitated by the United Nations mission in order to hold free, fair and transparent national presidential and parliamentary elections.
The UNSC stressed the need to hold elections on the basis of applicable electoral laws, with the aim of forming a unified Libyan government capable of ruling throughout the country, and also called for taking steps to reunite Libyan political, economic, military and security institutions, and to protect the independence of the judiciary.
