US Special Envoy to Libya Richard Norland confirmed that his country supports UN envoy to Libya Abdullah Batili’s call for a 6+6 committee to reach agreement on a legal framework for the elections. “We call on all Libyan political leaders to exert their influence to this end without delay,” Norland said. Future of Libya: “We call on all Libyan political leaders to exert their influence to this end without delay,” Norland said, according to a tweet from the US embassy. Libya account.
The US Ambassador reprinted a tweet from the UN envoy about his meeting with Speaker of the House of Representatives Councilor Aguila Saleh and Chairman of the Supreme State Council Khaled Al-Mashri.
Nazirland is a career diplomat with the rank of Secretary of the US State Department, born in Morocco and serving as US Ambassador to Libya, Georgia and Uzbekistan, and Deputy Chief of Mission to Afghanistan and Latvia. He was also a foreign policy adviser to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; International Affairs Advisor and Deputy Commandant of the National War College and Director of European Affairs of the National Security Council; and Senior Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University. Earlier in his career he worked as a political adviser in Dublin and was Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs for African Affairs.
