She said she was confident about the conclusion of a ceasefire.

Stephanie Williams, UN mediator for Libya, managed to secure a peace deal on Friday, October 23, after five days of talks in Geneva.

Broadcast live on the Internet, the parties to the conflict, the Government of National Accord (GNA), in place in Tripoli and recognized by the international community, and the eastern authorities allied with Marshal Khalifa Haftar, signed a ceasefire. "national and permanent" fire.

The signing of the agreement, held in the room of the United Nations Palace in Geneva which is used for the regular meetings of the Conference on Disarmament, lasted about ten minutes, followed by a round of applause.

"The Libyan parties have reached a permanent ceasefire agreement throughout Libya. This achievement represents an important turning point towards peace and stability in Libya," said the UN Support Mission in Libya. (Manul).

As of Wednesday, the belligerents had agreed, in Switzerland, to reopen the main land routes and internal air links.

For the population, exhausted by the fighting and divisions, it is a ray of hope that will allow families to be able to reunite after months of forced separation.

After an offensive launched between April 2019 and June 2020 by the pro-Haftar to seize, in vain, Tripoli, the main land routes were cut between the cities of the East and the West and the internal air links interrupted.

Lifting of the oil blockade

The two sides also agreed to increase oil production, asking, according to Stephanie Williams, their commanders "to work with the representative of the National Oil Corporation (NOC, the public company) to propose a restructuring of the guards of the facilities. oil ".

Traditionally under the authority of the Ministry of Defense, these guards have become members of armed groups of changing allegiances.

Since the lifting in September of the blockade imposed by the pro-Haftar on these sites, oil production in Libya, which has the most abundant oil reserves in Africa, has resumed and is growing sharply.

Khalifa Haftar had agreed to lift the blockade on condition of obtaining a fair share of oil revenues.

The lockdown since January has caused more than $ 9.8 billion (€ 8.2 billion) in lost revenue, according to the NOC.

Also in this context of appeasement, Ms. Williams had indicated that the two camps had agreed to "put an end to hate rhetoric" in the media and on social networks, to work for a maintenance of calm on the front line and to support efforts for the release of prisoners.

With Reuters and AFP

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