In the Moroccan city of Bouznika, south of Rabat, the talks of the House of Representatives Committee and the Supreme Council of State in Libya concluded, where it was agreed on the distribution of the sovereign positions between the three regions.

A member of the Libyan House of Representatives, Muhammad al-Ra’id, told Al-Jazeera that the committees of the Supreme Council of State and Parliament, meeting in Bouznika, Morocco, agreed to distribute the sovereign positions stipulated in the Skhirat political agreement, between the regions: Tripoli, Cyrenaica and Fezzan.

He added that the Central Bank of Libya and the Administrative Control Authority will be from the eastern part of Libya, while the west of the country will receive the Audit Bureau, the Attorney General and the High Electoral Commission, provided that the Supreme Court and the Anti-Corruption Commission will be for southern Libya.

Al-Raeed stated that the positions of the Attorney General and the President of the Supreme Court, the judicial bodies will choose who will occupy them, taking into account that they are from the regions stipulated in the Bouznika Agreement.

A member of the House of Representatives explained that the Parliament's two committees are in the process of agreeing to form a committee to accept the candidacy files, and to consider the applicability of the previously agreed conditions and criteria, indicating that the nominations will be received between January 26 and February 2.

On Friday, the sessions of the fifth round of the Libyan dialogue between the House of Representatives and the Supreme Council of State (Committee 13 + 13) began in Bouznika, northern Morocco, to discuss the selection of sovereign positions.

The (13 + 13) committee includes 13 members from the House of Representatives and the same from the Supreme Council of the State, and its mission is to work on the tracks assigned to the two chambers, and includes the outputs of the Libyan political dialogue, sovereign positions, and the constitutional path.

Morocco's talks between the Libyan parties have begun to bear fruit (Al-Jazeera)

Timeout and apprehensions

This comes while the 90-day deadline for expelling foreign forces and mercenaries from Libya expired today, according to the agreement of the Joint Libyan Military Committee known as Five Plus Five, without implementing the terms of the agreement signed in Geneva last October.

With the end of the deadline for the exit of mercenaries and foreign forces from Libya, the permanent ceasefire agreement in the country remains under threat, especially with the possibility of military actions erupting again between the two parties to the conflict.

Libya, undermined by power struggles and bloody violence - since the fall of the regime of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 after 8 months of a popular revolution - has been divided since 2016 between two authorities: the United Nations-recognized Government of National Accord based in Tripoli and the authorities allied with retired Major General Khalifa Haftar.

Haftar is backed by the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Russia, while Turkey militarily supports the Government of National Accord.

After the failure of Haftar's forces in April 2019 to take control of Tripoli, diplomatic efforts succeeded in stopping the military actions and culminated in the signing of the Libyan Military Commission in Geneva under the auspices of the United Nations on October 23, last year, a permanent ceasefire agreement across the country.

Pictures of African mercenaries in the streets of the city of Hun in Al-Jafra region (communication sites)

Agreement and terms

The most important provisions of the agreement stipulate the departure of foreign forces and mercenaries within 90 days, which ends on Saturday, but no announcement was made on Saturday morning about the departure or dismantling of these forces.

A day ago, the American CNN channel broadcast satellite images that were shown as a huge trench dug in the south of the city of Sirte (north) of mercenaries supported by Russia, and the channel quoted an unnamed American official as saying that this is evidence that these mercenaries are. Intend to stay for a long time. "

The United Nations Acting Envoy to Libya, Stephanie Williams, revealed, in early December, the presence of 20,000 "foreign and mercenary forces" in Libya, considering this a "terrible" violation of national sovereignty.

It also indicated that there are 10 military bases in Libya, which are partially or completely occupied by foreign forces and mercenaries.