Pacifying Libya: the impossible mission of the future UN special envoy?
Jan Kubis, a former foreign minister of Slovakia who worked as UN envoy in Iraq and Afghanistan, has been appointed to be UN coordinator in Lebanon AFP / File
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The candidacy of former Slovak minister Jan Kubis as UN special envoy to Libya was accepted by the Security Council on Friday evening.
The post has been vacant since Ghassan Salamé resigned on March 2.
Jan Kubis is currently the Special Envoy to Lebanon, having completed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
For the UN, it is urgent to act in Libya to preserve the fragile ceasefire agreement signed last October, but the work of the special envoy is complicated.
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A few months after
his resignation, Ghassan Salamé
made numerous statements denouncing the actors involved in Libya who “have
no intention of achieving peace
”, the duplicity of those who “
say one thing and do the opposite
”.
He also denounced certain UN officials who have their own agenda, which sometimes goes against the mission of the special envoy.
Since then, the situation has not changed, or in the wrong direction.
The influence of different countries in Libya has only grown.
Indeed, the mercenaries, Russians, Turks, Syrians pro-Turks, Sudanese and Chadians are still there, while the ceasefire agreement requires their departure before January 23.
The airlift
between Turkey and Libya
to transport weapons and mercenaries continues.
The Russians also do not seem ready to leave the country.
The appointment of a unified executive, a process blocked for three months, will be one of the challenges of the new envoy.
It is this executive who will be responsible for leading the country towards the elections scheduled for next December.
A mission that seems impossible if the United Nations does not manage to speak with one voice to stop interference and arms imports.
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