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Libyans from rival regions and all walks of life are fed up with the country’s divisions and want political players to end their years-long impasse and agree to hold national elections, a key step to peace in the oil-rich north African…
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The UN envoy for Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, lashed out at the country’s feuding parties and their foreign backers at a UN Security Council meeting Tuesday and then confirmed he had submitted his resignation. The former Senegalese minister…
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The UN’s special envoy for Yemen on Monday said that while it is clear that the war in the country has connections to other conflicts in the region, “we owe it to the Yemenis to ensure that resolving the conflict in Yemen is not made…
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Visiting UN special envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen urged Damascus on Sunday to rejoin talks to revise the country’s constitution, warning that political dialogue was going “in the wrong direction.” Syria’s war, which began 13 years ago…
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The UN special envoy for Libya warned the country’s feuding political actors on Thursday that if they don’t urgently form a unified government and move toward elections the North African nation will slide into “disintegration.” Abdoulaye…
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Saudi Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Waleed Elkhereiji on Wednesday met UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen in New York on the sidelines of the UN Security Council meeting. The pair discussed the work of the Kingdom and the UN…
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Hans Grundberg, the UN’s Yemen envoy, on Thursday, urged the Yemeni government and the Houthis to return to the negotiating table in order to reach a peace agreement and end the conflict as he and other regional and international mediators…
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Arab ambassadors to the UN joined Palestinian envoy Riyad Mansour on Friday in calling for an immediate ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas and for a mechanism to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to people in need in…
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The Palestinian envoy to the United Nations on Tuesday described Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip and vow to impose a complete siege on the Hamas-controlled Palestinian enclave as “nothing less than genocidal.” Hamas militants…
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The United Nations envoy for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, arrived in Laayoune on Monday for talks on the disputed territory, the UN said. A statement said he was “looking forward to conducting visits in the region and meetings,…
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