Letter from Chairman of Ihya Libya (Reviving Libya) Dr. Aref Nayed to Acting SRSG of UNSMIL on the Geneva process.
Libya
September 16, 2020
H.E. Ms Stephanie Williams
Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General
and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL)
Your Excellency, Dear Ms. Williams,
Greetings. It is important and timely to bring to your attention the following forgotten fact: In September 2015, the duly elected Libyan Parliament (the full House of Representatives) in full session, full quorum, and with a clear majority vote selected 14 names and sent them to the UN so that a Prime Minister and one Deputy (the other Deputy was supposed to be selected by the GNC) could be appointed.
Unfortunately for the Libyan people, in 2015, the UN ignored the Parliamentarian list, and chose Mr. Fayez al-Sarraj from outside the list. That is the foundational reason for Sarraj’s two failures to achieve parliamentarian confidence, and for the disastrous 5 years of divisiveness and conflict in which Libya was governed by an executive that was totally rejected by the duly elected legislature. All Libyan court cases have clearly pointed this out.
As the UN prepares to convene the ‘Libyan Dialogue’ in Geneva soon, it is vital to remember that this Parliamentarian Decree still stands, as per Libya’s constitutional declaration and law, and that Libyan courts would honor it. The Decree was never revoked, and therefore it constitutionally and legally still stands.
Therefore, as one of the Libyans whose names were vetted and selected by our duly elected Parliament, I seek your support in making sure the Geneva Process of the UN respects the Parliamentarian Decree communicated in the attached letter from the Head of the HoR to the Head of the UN Mission to Libya at the time.
Many thanks for your kind consideration.
With best regards,
Aref Ali Nayed,
Chairman, Ihya Libya (Reviving Libya) Bloc
