The Libyan ambassador to the United Nations, Taher El Sonni, warned Sunday Belgium of after attempting to seize Libyan frozen assets worth 49 million euros, advising Belgian authorities to back off as “this won’t happen”.

The European Union on Sunday welcomed the formation of the transitional Libyan government ahead of the December elections and threatened sanctions against those who may try to challenge it.

Libya’s Tobruk administration welcomed Friday’s announcement of a new interim government to unite the country, but added it would only cede power if the eastern-based parliament approved.

Speaker for Tripoli-based House of Representatives Asaad Al-Shartaa confirmed that members of the parliament are in the process of convening a full quorum session to conduct a confidence vote in the newly elected executive authority.

Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, a businessman-turned-politician, has been chosen as Libya’s new interim prime minister following lengthy United Nations-sponsored talks aimed at ending a decade of conflict in the North African country.

Meeting for a seventh round at its permanent base in Sirte from 4-7 February, the 5+5 Joint Military Commission called on the UN Security Council to follow up on the Berlin conference outcomes by obliging member states to withdraw foreign mercenaries and fighters immediately from Libya.

As conflicts in Syria, Yemen, Libya, and Iraq move toward de-escalation, postwar reconstruction will be complicated. Each country has a unique postwar outlook, but in all four countries, political reconstruction is a key foundation for long-term economic stability.

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) announces that it has received four lists of candidates for the positions of the three-member Presidency Council and of Prime Minister, which were submitted by the specified deadline and with the required number of endorsements, as stipulated in the selection mechanism adopted …

Italy submitted on Tuesday two draft memoranda to Libya, Tripoli’s Foreign Ministry reported today.

On 16 September, 2011, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) passed Resolution 2009, creating the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL). The mission, which has boasted seven chiefs so far, increasingly became Libya’s top decision-maker following a seven-month bloody civil war that divided the country.