During a Security Council meeting, the United States demanded Turkey and Russia to immediately begin withdrawing their forces from Libya, while the United Nations Acting Representative in Libya called for the dissolution of the parallel executive institutions in the country.

Richard Mills, the acting US representative to the United Nations, said that his country "calls on all external parties, including Russia, Turkey and the Emirates, to respect Libyan sovereignty and to end all military interventions in Libya immediately."

"In line with the ceasefire agreement concluded in October, we ask Turkey and Russia to start immediately withdrawing their forces from the country, and withdraw foreign mercenaries and military agents, who have recruited, deployed and financed them in Libya," Mills added.

The position of the new US President Joe Biden's administration towards the Libyan crisis represents a shift from the policy of former President Donald Trump's administration, which was characterized by ambiguity.

Last December, the United Nations estimated about 20,000 foreign mercenaries and military personnel deployed in Libya in support of the two camps of the conflict, namely the recognized Government of National Accord and the forces of retired Major General Khalifa Haftar, and the United Nations counted 10 military bases that partially or completely house foreign forces. in the country.

Under the ceasefire agreement reached by the two parties to the conflict on October 23, foreign forces and mercenaries must leave the country during the three months following the signing of the agreement, that is, by January 23.

None of the mercenary forces withdrew in Libya, despite the passage of the deadline stipulated in the agreement.

Parallel institutions

In a related context, the UN Acting Representative in Libya, Stephanie Williams, called on the UN Security Council to issue a decision to dissolve all parallel executive institutions in the country, and this came in a statement she gave during a council session on the Libyan crisis this evening.

Williams intended to dissolve institutions: unifying the most prominent security, military and financial institutions in the hands of a unified national government, in light of the duplication of these institutions between the Government of National Accord and Haftar's forces.

The UN official informed the members of the Security Council that the ceasefire agreement is still in place, and that the Military Committee (5 + 5) is working to expel mercenaries from the country.

This committee includes 5 military members from the Government of National Accord and one from Haftar's forces, and it is concerned with implementing the ceasefire agreement.