Libyan Political Parties and Movements Call on UN Security Council to Ensure December Elections Are Held

A consortium of Libyan parties and movements issued a statement today, Thursday, urging the President and members of the UN Security Council and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, to exercise their role in helping and supporting the Libyan people, and not to compromise their legitimate rights by ensuring that elections are held on time in Libya.

(LIBYA, 15 July 2021) – A consortium of Libyan parties and movements, said in their joint statement that they valued the efforts exerted by the UN Security Council “to end the causes of the ongoing Libyan crisis, put an end to all forms of suffering that the Libyan people are going through, and save Libya from the state of insecurity and instability.”

The statement said that the Libyan parties and movements were concerned to follow up on the UN Security Council meeting today on Thursday which is set to discuss the Libyan crisis, and to make it known to them that they were “deeply disappointed by the scenes of failure and absurdity that marred the sessions of the recent meeting of the members of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) Committee, which ended with the complete inability of this Forum to carry out the tasks set out in the Political Agreement and approved by your esteemed Council to formulate a constitutional rule according to which the direct Presidential and Parliamentary elections are implemented on their stipulated date of 24 December 2021.”

They urged the UN Security Council to support the Libyan people and not compromise their “inherent right to choose their Head of State and their members of the Parliament via free, fair and direct elections.”

AlMarsad publishes below the text of the full letter sent to the President of the UN Security Council.

LETTER TO NICOLAS DE RIVIÈRE,
PRESIDENT OF THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL

H.E. Mr. Nicolas de Rivière
Permanent Representative of France to the UN
and President of the Security Council for the Month of July 2021

Honorable Permanent Representatives of the Member-States of the UN Security Council

c/o His Excellency Mr. António Guterres, Secretary-General
United Nations
New York, NY 10017

Your Excellency,

Further to our best greetings,

The Libyan Parties and Movements, hereby, extend their deep thanks and appreciation to your esteemed Council for your exerted efforts to end the causes of the ongoing Libyan crisis, put an end to all forms of suffering that the Libyan people are going through, and save Libya from the state of insecurity and instability.

While we are following your highly appreciated efforts with gratitude, and in light of the meeting of your esteemed council scheduled for today, Thursday 15 July 2021, to discuss the development of the Libyan crisis, we would like to affirm the following:

First: The Libyan people were deeply disappointed by the scenes of failure and absurdity that marred the sessions of the recent meeting of the members of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) Committee, which ended with the complete inability of this Forum to carry out the tasks set out in the Political Agreement and approved by your esteemed Council to formulate a constitutional rule according to which the direct Presidential and Parliamentary elections are implemented on their stipulated date of 24 December 2021.

Second: We are closely following, with great disapproval, the state of indifference and procrastination shown by Libyan authorities, in different manifestations, and their reluctance to implement the constitutional rule and other required obligations to enable the High National Elections Commission (HNEC) to fulfil the requirements of implementing the elections on time.

Third: The Libyan people, while they are eagerly awaiting the holding of this national entitlement on time, are aware of your esteemed Council’s keenness to fulfil the international commitments approved by the Berlin Conference I and II, as well as the UN Security Council Resolution No. 2570, and are looking forward to the Security Council exercising its powers and firmness towards all concerned so that the Libyan people are not denied their inherent right to choose their Head of State and their members of the Parliament via free, fair and direct elections.

In conclusion, we look forward with increasing optimism to the Security Council playing its role in helping and supporting the Libyan people and not compromising their legitimate rights represented in holding the elections on their scheduled date.

God Save Libya

Signatories

Issued on July 15, 2021