Tripoli_ At a meeting with Stephanie Koury on Sunday in Tripoli, PM Abdulhamid Dbeibeh affirmed his “full support for the efforts of the UN mission to move the political process forward, ensuring the holding of elections and ending the transitional phases,” according to a statement released by the Prime Minister’s Office.
Mr. Dbeibeh also stressed the “necessity of respecting the political agreement and the institutions emanating from it in order to ensure the achievement of justice and political stability,” the statement said.
This comes after a day since he criticized all major political forces in Libya and said there would be no elections unless there is a constitution. He also called on “Libyans should help themselves and not wait for help from the world community. Even the UN will assist according to its own way and not according to Libyan people’s way,”
Koury, UNSMIL’s Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General (DSRSG), said on her official X platform that they both “discussed the urgent priority of achieving consensus on a unified budget.” She also said that she briefed Mr. Dbeibeh on “the next steps of the political process ahead of the briefing to the Security Council” which will be taking place on today Monday.
“I stressed the importance that all parties engage constructively with the UN to overcome the current political deadlock in an inclusive, Libyan-led process that aims at preserving Libya’s fragile stability while moving the country towards national elections and unified institutions,” Koury said.
However, the Tripoli’s GNU and the Presidential Council seem to have viewed the fact that they were not represented at a consultative meeting on Libya that was held in Wilton Park, in London last week as being exclusion of Libyan institutions emanating from the political agreement.
“Any international effort that exclude the Libyan institutions emanating from the political agreement its outcomes would be considered lacking legitimacy and could affect the implementation of any decisions emanating from it,” the Chairman of the Presidential Council Mohammed Menfi wrote on X platform. The Wilton Park meeting included Britain, the USA, France, Italy, Germany, the EU, Egypt, Turkey, Qatar and the UAE.