Just a month after he took over as UNSMIL chief from Bernardino Leon, Martin Kobler watched while the deal, much of which has been hammered out over the past year by members of the Libyan Dialogue, was finally signed.
The agreement brings into being a nine-man presidential council headed by prime minister Faiez Serraj which will form a cabinet to run a Government of National Accord.
The signing of the UN-brokered Libya Dialogue agreement known as the Libyan Political Agreement (LPA) will take place in the Moroccan resort of Skhirat tomorrow rather than today, Wednesday, as planned, Moroccan officials have confirmed.
The delay is said to be caused by the logistical problems of getting as many key players as possible from Libya to Skhirat in time.
The president of the parliament and his opposite number in the Libya Dawn’s GNC have called for the postponement of the signature of the deal that is supposed to usher in the Government of National Accord.
The plea was made at a joint conference in Malta between House of Representatives’ president Ageela Saleh Gwaider and the president of Libya Dawn’s GNC, Nuri Abu Sahmain.
US Secretary of State John Kery has said that the planned Government of National Accord (GNA) to be led by Faiez Serraj will be able to be based in Tripoli and that those who for “their own selfish purposes” want to wreck the UN-brokered Libya Political Agreement (LPA) will have to be held accountable
The GNC Dialogue Team members who put their names to the UNSMIL Tunis deal on Friday were today disowned by a leader of the rump of the old parliament.
First deputy president Awad Abdul Saddeq said today that they had been acting without authorisation from Tripoli and had therefore simply been signing for themselves.
Ibrahim Dabbashi
In what appears to be an abrupt change of mind, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has pulled the rug from under Bernardino Leon and his plans to press on with the formation of the new Government of National Accord.
