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Security Council extends mandate of UN mission in Libya

Xinhua, March 16, 2016 Adjust font size:

The UN Security Council on Tuesday approved a short extension of the mandate of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) until June 15, 2016 to assist the further work in establishing the country's government of national accord.

In a unanimously adopted resolution, the 15-nation Council reiterated its support for the full implementation of the Libyan Political Agreement, a UN-sponsored peace agreement signed on Dec. 17, 2015 in Skhirat, Morocco, to form a government of national accord that can gain wide support in the country.

The Council, while expressing its support for the ongoing efforts of UNSMIL to facilitate a Libyan-led political solution to the challenges facing the country, encouraged all parties in Libya to be part of and engage constructively in good faith with the agreement.

Five years after the toppling of Libya's late Muammar Gaddafi's regime, the North African country is still struggling with the democratic transition.

On Sunday, Libyan presidential council called on all sovereign institutions of the Libyan state, mainly official financial institutions, to start communicating with the newly-appointed government of national accord for "an organized and peaceful transfer of power." Enditem