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UN Secretary-General hands over permanent members of the Security Council a letter on appointing a new special envoy to Libya.

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New York 1 September 2022 (Lana) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres handed over to the permanent members of the Security Council a letter about appointing a new special envoy to Libya to succeed US diplomat Stephanie Williams.

Sources said that Guterres will appoint the Senegalese diplomat, Abdullah Batiali, as a Special Envoy in Libya to succeed Stephanie Williams whose duties ended last July.

If Batiali is appointed, he will be the 8th envoy to Libya since 2011, after Jordan's Abdullah Al-Khatib, British Ian Martin, Lebanese Tariq Mitri, Spaniard Bernardino Leon, German Martin Kobler, Lebanese Ghassan Salameh, Slovakian Jan Kubis, and US UN advisor Stephanie Williams.

Batiali is a Senegalese diplomat born in 1947, and joined the UN organization in 2014, where he was assigned as a UN Envoy to central Africa, he also headed the visiting UN delegation to assess the work of the UN mission in Libya in 2021, and in May 2015, chaired the Bangui National Forum for National Reconciliation in the Central African Republic.

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