Aref Nayed, the Chairman of the Ihya Libya Movement, issued an open letter today to the head of UNSMIL, Ján Kubiš, stating that the UN Security Council needs to be firm with the interim Government of National Unity (GNU) to ensure that it does not stray from its mandate which is to ensure that Presidential and Parliamentary elections take place as scheduled on 24 December 2021.
Aref Nayed’s letter to Ján Kubiš said the latest “disturbing maneuvers” proved once again that the Libyan political status quo wants to maintain “power and privileges as long as they possibly can, at the cost of the continued suffering of the Libyan people”. Nayed said to Kubiš that it was high time the UN Security Council “urgently acted with firmness and determination.”
He urged the UN Security Council to show determination and urgent action to “restore to the long-suffering Libyan people their basic human rights of choosing their own leadership, in clean well-monitored direct Presidential and Parliamentarian Elections.”
Aref Nayed and Ján Kubiš
He called on the UN to “protect Libyan civilians against the predatory malpractices of the self-perpetuating and procrastinating status-quo political actors.”
Source: www.almarsad.co