Libyan interim Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah held a meeting with diplomatic mission chiefs in the capital Tripoli on Tuesday to discuss the political situation in the middle of the Eastern parliamentmeeting of Fathi Bashagha as prime minister.
A declaration made per unit government noted that Dbeibah had said mission chiefs that the government aims to hold elections within the framework of The roadmap drawn by the United Nations.
In response, the ambassadors told Dbeibah that necessary work must be made hold elections and that they firmly support Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Libya Stephanie William’s efforts to create a joint constitutional committee.
Ambassadors of Turkey, USA, UK, France, Qatar, Greece, Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, Algeria and Tunisia participated in the meeting, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.
Turkish Ambassador to Libya Kenan Yılmaz previously held a one-on-one Meet with Dbeiba on March 6.
Meanwhile, US Ambassador to Libya Richard B. Norland urged restraint and called on all parties to defuse tensions.
“The United States continues to call for calm and de-escalation in contacts with all sides,” said Ambassador in a Twitter message, adding that son colleagues in Washington had a similar conversation with Fathi Bashagha Tuesday afternoon.
the struggle over control of Libya government after the collapse of a planned election in December menace to plunge the country back into conflict and division who prevailed for many of the period since a NATO-backed revolution in 2011.
Dbeibah was installed a year through a process supported by the United Nations and says his government remains valid, and it will only yield power after a postponed election that he says he will hold in June.
Dbeibah accused parliament of seeking to sabotage the election and said, “What they called a government will never be work in reality and will have no place.”
Parliament declared that Dbeibah term expired when December elections did not take place place as expected, and the room has instead chosen Bashagha for lead a new transition with elections to follow next year.
Parliament’s stance is backed by eastern-based coup leader General Khalifa Haftar who fought a 14 month war on Tripoli from 2019 to 2020. Armed factions in the capital and the western regions seem divided over crisis, with some say they oppose parliament that is move for install a new government.
Bachagha, a former interior minister said he was committed to holding elections on time next year set out by Parliament, adding that it wanted reach an agreement between rival political institutions on the issue.
Disputes over basic rules for the election led to the collapse of the expected vote in December.
