United Nations : Guterres Wants Observers In Libya

United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres has called on member countries to adopt a ceasefire mechanism, sending international observers to Libya. Speaking during a UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday, January 5, 2021, the UN scribe also proposed the putting in place of an International Committee to monitor the ceasefire in Libya that would work alongside joint monitoring teams from the two rival governments of Tripoli and Eastern Libya “for specific tasks monitoring and verification.”  
The Joint Military Commission called for “individual unarmed and non-uniformed” international observers to be deployed under the auspices of the United Nations. The team of international observers would be “agile and able to carry out monitoring” according to the concept of the Military Commission. The UN chief believes that a preliminary team should be sent to Tripoli, as a first step to “lay the foundations for an evolving ceasefire monitoring by the United Nations.” The UN Secretary-General will also have to start the search for a special envoy for Libya from scratch, after the withdrawal of Bulgarian diplomat Nickolay Mladenov last December due to personal and family reasons. 
Meanwhile, the situation in Libya is still vacillating between war and peace with tenuous progress made on the three tracks since the ceasefire agreement was signed. Regarding the military track, Acting Special Representative and head of United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL...