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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. =Lana=