And local and international media revealed, the members of the Security Council received a report from the experts of the United Nations, regarding the developments of the situation in Libya during the period between January and November 2021, extracts of which were leaked..
The report, which is to be officially announced soon, indicated that “there is no evidence of large-scale withdrawals of foreign fighters,” noting that these fighters, who are deployed in western Libya, receive between 800 and 2,000 dollars a month..
He also referred to the accusations leveled in September against France of carrying out military operations in southern Libya, which were rejected by Paris at the time.
Militia stockpiles
Experts mandated by the Security Council to monitor the implementation of the arms embargo on Libya, imposed since 2011, confirmed that violations in this regard “reduced” compared to previous years, with a decrease in flights for the transfer of weapons to the Libyan West, but they cautioned that the weapons stockpiles of the groups Armed forces “are still high and sufficient to stoke future conflict.”“.
And the Libyan political analyst, Amjad Bin Ashour, believes that “the Brotherhood organization is preventing a breakthrough in this file, especially before the upcoming elections, as the current situation represented by the chaos of arms between militias and foreign fighters in the West threatens to hold elections in an atmosphere of transparency and integrity, as well as Basically, the organization is trying to shuffle the cards.”
Ashour pointed out that the Libyan Joint Military Committee “5 + 5”, which is concerned with following up the withdrawal of mercenaries, sought to benefit from the pressure tools available from the UN Security Council, also in accordance with the understandings and outcomes of the first and second Berlin conferences on Libya, in order to achieve a breakthrough..
The Libyan strategic expert, Brigadier General Muhammad Al-Rajbani, agrees with Ashour, on the “importance of giving the Military Committee sufficient international support to be able to implement the mechanism for removing mercenaries, which has gone a long way in formulating it during the past period.”
During meetings in Geneva, Cairo and Tunisia, the Military Committee was able to agree on a mechanism to gradually remove mercenaries from Libya, and reached understandings on the same with neighboring countries to the south (Chad, Sudan and Niger), in addition to receiving support from the African Union and the United Nations in this regard. “.
Al-Rajbani expressed his optimism that “a timetable for the withdrawal of mercenaries will be implemented before the elections, which will allow this important event to be conducted in an atmosphere of transparency and credibility, so that the Libyans can express their opinions without pressure from any party.”
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