Chairman of Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives responds to Williams' statements regarding politicians in Libya

. Benghazi, 14 August, 2022 (Lana) - Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, Youssef Al-Aqoury responded to the recent statements by former UN advisor in Libya, Stephanie Williams, regarding the country’s political class, expressing his regret over these statements that lack objectivity.

Al-Aqouri said, in statements reported by the House’s media office, that Williams circulated its judgements on the political class in Libya, and neglected the sincere efforts of some to reach a settlement that restores stability to the country, and that her statement lacked objectivity and does not understand the difficult conditions in which Libyan politicians work and the hate campaigns against them.

 Al-Aqouri added that Williams should have spoken frankly to the Libyan people about the work of the mission, which made a catastrophic mistake and did not seriously pursue the accusations of bribing members of the National Dialogue Committee, which produced the Dabaiba government, which is considered the most corrupt government, and future generations will suffer as a result of its irresponsible economic policy. He said that "Stephanie" did not talk about the performance of the national unity government, which had a great opportunity to succeed in important files such as unifying divided government institutions, economic reform, reconciliation and decentralization. The Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee explained that Williams was not keen in her briefings to the Security Council to clarify the reality of working on files important to the stability of the country, such as the unification of sovereign institutions, reconciliation and decentralization, and that she was not close to everyone and was not keen on respecting the emerging democracy in Libya, where the position of the mission was Weak in support of the Libyan government headed by Fathi Bashagha, which came in accordance with democratic mechanisms to achieve national consensus and represents all Libyan political parties in one government, as he put it.

Al-Aqouri concluded by saying: “While we appreciate the efforts of the previous envoy, which achieved some success, most notably the economic file and the ceasefire during her work with former envoy Ghassan Salama, in addition to supporting dialogue on the constitutional track, Stephanie also missed great opportunities to support the efforts of the political leaders in Libya to end the division, and ignored many sincere efforts to restore peace and stability to the country and end the division.”

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