At a time when Libya is still facing the unknown, the United Nations announced today (Saturday) that the UN Adviser on Libyan Affairs, Stephanie Williams, will leave her post in late July, explaining that attempts are underway to name a temporary person to carry out her duties.
"They are trying, as quickly as possible, to name a temporary person to carry out the tasks that Williams is carrying out, but we have no one to name now," said Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for the Secretary-General of the United Nations, explaining that the UN mission in Libya is present and that the person who assumes responsibility in place of Williams is Rezdon. Zeninga, and he will remain in charge until someone else is named.
Williams led mediation efforts between the parties to the Libyan conflict two years ago within the political dialogue forum that produced the current authorities (the unity government and the Presidential Council), while those efforts failed to lead to elections on December 24 that had been approved by that forum.
Williams also managed an initiative that she launched months ago to form a committee of the House of Representatives and the state to set a constitutional rule that leads to the elections without achieving this until now, and despite all these efforts, the Libyans accused her of bias and inability to manage the file, and that the achievements made in her era are due to international support. While others believe that she has achieved achievements to be reckoned with and called her the Iron Lady.
Williams held several positions, including Acting Chargé d'Affairs at her country's embassy in Libya, Senior Adviser for Syrian Affairs and Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Mission in Iraq, Jordan and Bahrain, and worked at the US embassies in the UAE, Kuwait, and Pakistan.
And she held several other positions in the US State Department in Washington, including the official of the Jordan office, deputy director of Egypt and the Arab East affairs, and director of the Arab Maghreb office, in addition to several international positions, including deputy special representative of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) and acting head of the mission after his resignation. Former UN envoy Ghassan Salame.
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