The United Nations announced Friday that a new round of talks for the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) would convene on February 01/05 in Geneva.
Stephane Dujarric, the spokesman for the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, told reporters in New York that the acting UN envoy, Stephanie Williams, would chair the Geneva talks in which voting on the nominees for the new executive authority will take place.
Dujarric indicated that the LPDF is expected to vote for persons nominated for the three members of the Presidential Council: Head and two deputies, and a Prime Minister, as per the roadmap agreed upon in Tunisia by the LPDF members in mid-November 2020.
He said that a three-member committee from the LPDF will make sure that the nominations are in line with the criteria set by the LPDF, including the posts of two deputies and Head of the Presidential Council as well as the Prime Minister’s post.
Dujarric explained that a unified executive authority in Libya would be temporary and would have to work toward taking the country into general elections on December 24, 2021.
On November 15, UNSMIL ended the rounds of the LPDF talks that were held in Tunisia with an agreement on a roadmap that would lead the country to general elections next December.
