Tonight, a new round of consultations started between the delegations of the Supreme Council of State and the Libyan Parliament in the Moroccan city of Bouznika, while Libyan citizens performed funeral prayers for the bodies of victims of mass graves in Tarhuna after their recent identification.
The first session of the fifth round of the Libyan dialogue has been held, and during this round, the members of the two councils will have to conclude their consultations by announcing comprehensive understandings regarding the mechanisms for assuming the sovereign positions stipulated in Article 15 of the political agreement signed in Skhirat, and if they are unable to do so, the file of the sovereign positions will be referred to the Dialogue Forum. Libyan politician.
Al-Jazeera correspondent from Bouznika Al-Mukhtar Al-Ablawi said that a discussion is taking place regarding the geographical and territorial distribution of the sovereign positions, indicating that the time factor is putting pressure on the participants in the negotiations, as yesterday, Thursday, the United Nations Support Mission in Libya announced the start of the deadline for submitting nominations for the positions of President of the Presidential Council, his two deputies, and the Prime Minister. The deadline expires on January 28.
According to the Skhirat Agreement signed in 2015 in the Moroccan city of Skhirat, the Libyan sovereign positions that are being negotiated in Bouznika are the governor of the Central Bank of Libya, the head of the Audit Bureau, the head of the Administrative Control Authority, the head of the Anti-Corruption Commission, the head and members of the High Electoral Commission, the President of the Supreme Court, and the deputy. The year.
This meeting comes days after the members of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (numbering 74) approved by majority the mechanism for selecting representatives of the country's executive authority (the government and the Presidency Council).
Turkey has announced that it will provide all kinds of support to the new administration structure that the Libyan parties have agreed upon, which will be formed on the basis of comprehensive national reconciliation.
Photos from Martyrs Square # Tripoli show part of the memorial services and funeral prayers for 14 martyrs and martyrs who were identified by their relatives through their private belongings that were found with them after their bodies were recovered from the mass graves in the south of Tarhuna .com / gMKRQLN3PT
- Media Center for Operation Volcano of Anger (@BurkanLy) January 22, 2021
In a statement on Friday, the Turkish Foreign Ministry welcomed the agreement of the parties to the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum on the mechanism for selecting representatives of the executive authority.
Anadolu Agency revealed that a source - preferring not to be named - that the United Nations Support Mission in Libya contacted members of the Forum for Political Dialogue in preparation for an upcoming meeting in Geneva in early February regarding the nominations of the government and the Presidential Council.
In Tripoli, Libyan citizens performed funeral prayers today, Friday, for 14 bodies of victims of mass graves in Tarhuna, after they were recently identified.
Videos and photos showed the affected participants in the funeral and funeral ceremonies in Martyrs Square in Tripoli.
The media center for the volcano of anger operation said that the funeral was held for "14 martyrs and martyrs who were identified by their relatives through their private belongings after their bodies were recovered from southern Tarhuna."