The UN Security Council will hold a meeting this evening Thursday to discuss developments in Libya, after the UN envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salameh, briefed members of the Council, in which he confirmed that the truce remained on paper in light of the indiscriminate bombing of Tripoli.

The US delegate to the Security Council, Kelly Kraft, said that countries that violate the arms embargo on Libya must face real consequences, while the African Supreme Committee on Libya called for a mechanism to be imposed to punish those who violate the ceasefire.

Salama said he is concerned and frustrated by developments in Libya after the Berlin conference on January 12, and condemned the continued violations of the pledges made by the international community at the conference to stop interventions and arm the parties to the conflict in this country.

Participants in the Berlin conference on the Libyan crisis (Reuters)

Crucial signs
Salama said during a briefing to the UN Security Council on the situation in Libya presented by Brazzville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, that the adoption of the outputs of the Berlin Conference by the Security Council will carry decisive references to the sabotaged parties - local and international - in Libya, about the seriousness of the international community's response to the crisis, As he says.

Salameh called on both parties to the conflict in Libya to renew their explicit commitment to the ceasefire agreement, and he also accused internal and external parties of pushing for armed conflict despite their emphasis during the Berlin conference on working to promote peace and support the efforts of the United Nations.

"All these maneuvers to supply the two sides with weapons threaten a new, more dangerous explosion, and they violate the spirit and content of the Berlin conference," Salameh said by video.

Salameh indicated that the truce in Libya was violated, which resulted in casualties, expressing his concern over the military escalation in light of the two parties to the Libyan conflict receiving military assistance from foreign sponsors.

Salameh pointed out that arms are still reaching the warring parties in Libya, and that fighters supporting the reconciliation forces are arriving in the thousands, calling on the parties to the conflict to renew their commitment to the ceasefire agreement.

The UN envoy indicated that he will meet retired Major General Khalifa Hifter after two days to discuss the truce in Libya, stressing that the latter did not confirm participation in the Geneva talks, which must begin quickly, according to his opinion.

Hifter continues his military campaign against the Libyan capital, Tripoli (Al-Jazeera)

Draft decision
During the session, the Security Council will discuss a draft resolution submitted by the British delegate to the United Nations for the ceasefire in Libya.

It also calls on the Security Council to adopt "the results of the Berlin Conference on Libya, and calls on all member states to comply fully with the arms embargo imposed since 2011," and "not to interfere in the conflict or take measures that aggravate it."

Salama had said that there are many external interventions in Libya, which further complicated the situation there, in a statement to him during the eighth summit of the African High Commission on Libya in Brazzville.

He continued that the situation is not good, but that it worsened in the recent period, and this bad situation is noted in several points, including the arrival of non-Libyan fighters and each party has different legal statuses.

He pointed out that some of these fighters are affiliated with private security companies, some of them are government experts working for the various parties, others are fully mercenaries who were seen in the field, and that among them are ideological fighters who come to the fronts of the fighting to defend their ideology.

The African Summit, held today in Brazzville, aims to study the development of the situation in Libya in preparation for the summit of Heads of State and Government of the African Union scheduled for next February in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.