Tag: Libya

Leon’s Libyan Dialogue Encounters Hurdles along the Road to Geneva

UNSMIL announced over the weekend that a new round of Libyan political dialogue would take place in Geneva on Wednesday 14 January, this week. Despite the shuttle diplomacy effort, that Bernardino Leon seems to have carried out to consult with...

/ December 10, 2015

Libya: Algiers renews its Engagement in the Libyan Dialogue Process

The first two weeks of Martin Kobler’s leadership of UNSMIL have been a period of intense diplomatic activity. Kobler has already indicated that he will start his mediation efforts where his predecessor left off, but made it clear that “Leon...

/ November 30, 2015

Lybia: Kobler takes over Leon’s unfinished Job

German career diplomat Martin Kobler has taken over the duties of Bernardino Leon as UN envoy to Libya. The change came following what Libyan affairs observers considered a Libya-gate scandal in the wake of the leaked emails of Leon, obtained...

/ November 17, 2015

Libya: Leon’s Dialogue Process?

Roughly two weeks after the end of the term of the Tobruk House of Representatives (HoR) on 20 October, UNSMIL has not been able to convince the conflict parties in Tobruk and Tripoli to sign the proposed draft agreement. A...

/ October 27, 2015

Libya: Leon Trying to Finish the Job

On 8 October UNSMIL’s Bernardino Leon announced a list of names he selected to form the National Accord Government. The NAG’s Presidential Council would include Faiez Al-Serraj, member of the House of Representatives in Tobruk as prime minister, together with...

/ October 8, 2015

Libya: Controversy in Final Version of UN Dialogue Agreement

On 21 September, Bernardino Leon – United Nations Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) – announced the Final Draft of the Libya Political Agreement. UNSMIL aimed for the Agreement’s ratification by both the...

/ October 5, 2015

Libya: Leon: “Our Job is Done”

Leon declared late at night on Monday that UNSMIL’s part of the work was done and that it was up to the Libyan political leaders to accept or reject the final text when they return to a final round of...

/ September 22, 2015

Libya: Leon’s Race against the Clock

After failing to convince the Tripoli-based GNC delegation to attend yet another dialogue round of talks in Morocco in late August, Leon found himself compelled to request a meeting with a larger group of the GNC parliamentarians in Istanbul ahead...

/ September 4, 2015