UN Envoy to Libya Warns Libyans UN Patience Running Thin.
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Tunis, 28 January 2016(Lana) The UN Special Envoy to Libya Martin
Kobler has warned Libyan parties that UN members patience over the
slowness of the political track and the expansion of Da'esh was
running thin.
Da'esh continued to expand, therefore there is a need to
accelerate the political process in Libya, Kobler said in a press
conference in Tunis on Wednesday.
The political agreement calls for a security committee to secure
the government in Tripoli, Kobler said, indicating that the goal of
liaison with the armed groups was create strong unified Libyan forces
to fight Da'esh and secure the government. He denied foreign forces
disparched to Libya.
The UN mission, he said was concentrating on Benghazi and talking
to all parties to reach a ceasefire. There will be a day when people
can obtain their humanitarian needs and get assistance, Kobler added.
He commented on the House of Representatives amendment of Article
8 of the political agreement and said according to UN Security
Council decision no 2259 no party can make any amendments to Article
8 without the consent of the House of Representatives and the State
Council.
Kobler called on parties to the conflict to overcome their
differences, stressing that the status quo cannot be acceptable and
there was a need to accelerate the establishment of security, and
military institutions to bring an end to the state of anarchy which
made Libya the only country in the world in which militiamen receive
their payments from the country's central bank.
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