UN Advisor Says Stability, Calm Must Be Ensured in Libya

On Wednesday, UN Secretary-General's Special Adviser on Libya Stephanie Williams stressed the importance of ensuring that stability and calm on the ground are maintained in Libya. This came during her presidency of the plenary session of the Security Working Group for Libya in Tunisia.

All members of Libya’s 5+5 Joint Military Commission have participated in the meeting, which was co-chaired by the United Kingdom, Turkey, Italy, and the African Union.

“In Tunis, I co-chaired, in collaboration with France, a Security Working Group (SWG) plenary meeting for Libya,” Williams tweeted.

" We were joined by the entirety of the JMC 5+5, as well as other co-chairs, the UK, Turkey, Italy, and the AU, for a valuable discussion on ceasefire monitoring, disarmament, and demobilization, and the way forward on the JMC 5+5’s work, she added.

Williams stressed the importance of ensuring that stability is maintained and that calm is preserved on the ground; and congratulated the JMC 5+5 on the work it has done thus far.

Williams met with senior officials of the governments of the United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, Egypt and Turkey.

“I am grateful to all of them for their support for the holding of elections as soon as possible, on the basis of a solid, consensual constitutional framework, for the sake of fulfilling the aspirations of the Libyan people to vote for their representatives,” she said.

“We discussed ceasefire monitoring, disarmament and demobilization, and the way forward on the JMC 5+5’s work,” Williams noted.