The Libyan division is exported to the UN
The UN Security Council in New York (illustrative image).
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The United Nations Security Council meets this Thursday, August 18 under the chairmanship of China.
On its program, the possible vote on a new special envoy to Libya after eight months of vacancy at the head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (Manul).
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Divisions in the international community over the Libyan dossier have repeatedly delayed the appointment of a new envoy.
According to several diplomats, the Senegalese Abdoulaye Bathily was unanimous after the consultations.
But this candidate is refused by the Tripoli government.
The Libyan divisions continue within the United Nations.
Internal Divisions
The Libyan representative's remarks, made on Monday at the United Nations against the proposed idea of sending the Senegalese Abdoulaye Bathily as special envoy to Libya, are only the latest example of the internal divisions that have been exported to the UN.
Indeed, each side of the Libyan struggle is trying to obtain a new emissary who could be favorable to it.
Tripoli, for example, prefers an Algerian emissary, because it is close to Algiers, unlike the eastern camp where relations with this country are almost zero.
Marshal Khalifa Haftar is rather close to Cairo, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi.
However, these countries have a different approach to the Libyan crisis than that of Algeria.
The Libyan representative made clear, on Monday August 15, an allusion to these divisions: "
We have
, he said,
someone who defends a very specific emissary while he refused another yesterday
".
Complicated appointment
Without naming her, he recalls Abu Dhabi's refusal of the candidacy of the Algerian Sabri Boukadoum who had nevertheless been unanimous with the other members of the Council.
In addition to the international divisions, the UN must now manage the regional and also Libyan divisions which now cast their shadow over this complicated appointment.
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