The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) continued on the fourth consecutive day to hold an in-person meeting of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) in Switzerland at the vicinity of Geneva.
This meeting will represent an opportunity for the members of the LPDF to further develop proposals on the constitutional basis to hold national parliamentary and presidential elections in December 2021.
Ján Kubiš, the UN Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), addressed a statement to the LPDF participants (via Zoom).
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