Jan Kubis had succeeded Ghassan Salame, who quit his position in March last year due to stress.
A change in the UN’s approach and strategy is needed, not its personnel.
The United States wants to split the role previously held by Ghassan Salame to have one person run the UN mission –– known as UNSMIL –– and another person focus on mediating peace in Libya, diplomats have said.
Libya's UN-recognised government forces seized control of a strategic town and city near the capital Tripoli from militias loyal to warlord Khalifa Haftar.
Publicly, the US backs the UN-backed government in Tripoli. It's time it starts showing that support.
Libyan PM Fayez al Sarraj demands rival warlord Khalifa Haftar's illegal militia withdraw from capital Tripoli outskirts, slams global inaction over hostilities raging in his country.
UN special representative for Libya Ghassan Salame says the country's warring sides are working to turn a provisional truce into a formal accord, a prospect that appears to face steep obstacles.
United Nations Libya Envoy Ghassan Salame said there is “genuine will” among the rival parties of war to sit and start negotiating together.
Military officers from UN-backed government and illegal militia of warlord Khalifa Haftar begin talks aimed at securing a ceasefire after 10 months of fighting on outskirts of capital, Tripoli.
UN special representative for Libya Ghassan Salame says the 5+5 commission, whose members were proposed by Libya's warring sides, will meet next week to help convert current truce into a "full-fledged ceasefire".
The four leaders agreed that attacks against civilians in Syria must stop and expressed support for a UN-backed political process in Libya.
"Mitiga airport has been targeted by fire this morning, the first day of Eid al Adha", the airport's management says in a statement.
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