Military delegations from the two rival Libyan camps have agreed on a roadmap to implement the recently signed ceasefire agreement between the two parties, the UN envoy to Libya announced on Tuesday (November 3rd) in the evening.
Discussions began Monday in Ghadames, in southwest Libya, bringing together five military officials from both camps who make up the Joint Military Commission, in the presence of the interim head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya ( Manul), Stephanie Williams.
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Libya has been stuck in an inextricable crisis since the fall in 2011 of Muammar Gaddafi's regime, torn between two rival powers: the Government of National Unity (GNA), recognized by the UN and based in Tripoli, and the Marshal's camp Khalifa Haftar, strongman from the East supported by part of the elected Parliament and its president, Aguila Saleh.
The Ghadames talks come after meetings in Geneva that led to the signing, on 23 October under the aegis of the UN, of a permanent ceasefire agreement with "
immediate effect
".
On Tuesday evening, Stephanie Williams announced that the two sides had agreed on the "
establishment of a military subcommittee to oversee the withdrawal of military forces to their respective bases and the departure of foreign forces from the front lines.
".
The Commission also decided to “
meet in Sirte (north) as soon as possible
” and to establish its headquarters there, Ms. Williams said.
The front line has been located around this city since mid-June.
The first meeting responsible for "
reuniting the guards of the oil installations
" will be held on November 16 at the Brega terminal, while air links will be re-established "
immediately
" with Sebha and Ghadames in the south.
The Commission urged the Security Council to "
quickly adopt a binding resolution to implement the Geneva ceasefire agreement
", the UN envoy said.
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"
The absence of gunfire is hardly enough to produce a solid peace
," Jalel Harchaoui, researcher at the Clingendael Institute in The Hague, told AFP.
Because despite a UN process that seems "
very encouraging (...) there is an undeniable lack of political substance and authenticity which seems all the same worrying
", decrypts the researcher.
Tuesday evening, the UN envoy called on the Libyan political class to be “
up to the responsibility
”.
"
We remind all those who get in the way of the process that they will expose themselves to sanctions,
" for his part warned Tuesday evening, the American ambassador to Libya Richard Norland.