U.N. to cast vote on road-map to end war in Libya

The U.N. Security Council is set to cast a vote on Wednesday's aiming that would support a 55-point road map and end the war in Libya. 

The U.K., which has been drafting a letter for three weeks, called for the vote to happen on Wednesday, diplomatic sources stated.

The vote proposes to end the war between the UN-acknowledged Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli and eastern-based military leader Khalifa Haftar. 

Since April 2019, the GNA has retaliated against an attack by fighters committed to Haftar, who is bolstered by a few nations, including Egypt, Russia, France, and the United Arab Emirates. 

The U.N. has blamed foreign players for increasing the contention and damaging an arms ban on the war-torn nation, The National reports.

As indicated by The National report, it additionally recalls the responsibility of all members at the Berlin meeting to abstain from meddling in Libya's contention and its domestic affairs and communicates concern "over the developing inclusion of soldiers in Libya." 

The deal has been over and again breached by moving arms movements to the warring groups and inflating fights, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, expressed a week ago. He examined the present offensives by rival authorities "an outrage," The National announced. 

A frail administration holds the capital of Tripoli, and Turkey backs the nation's west part. On the other hand, the opponent government in the east that supports Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, whose forces propelled an assault to seize the capital last April saying he tried to end the rule of an army that back the Tripoli regime. Other Arab states, including Egypt, Russia, and France, support field Marshal Haftar, The National reports.

As indicated by The National, the draft aims to invite last week's peace talks between Libya's warring parties in Geneva and calls for their continuation "immediately to consent to a stable cease-fire." 

South Africa and Russia complained to an earlier document of the resolution. Russia looked for some significant changes that were not acknowledged, including changing the greeting for the Berlin meeting to "observe" the conference and changing the wording of concern over the developing involvement of mercenaries to "foreign militant fighters." It was uncertain on how Russia votes on the resolution. 

On Tuesday, the Security Council cast a ballot 14-0 with Russia declining on a resolution extending the arms ban, travel ban, asset freeze, and other penalties on Libya until April 30, 2021. It additionally reached the mandate of the U.N. panel, monitoring the discharge of the sanctions until May 15, 2021. 

The resolution draft denounces attempts to trade oil and refined oil-based good from Libya illegally. It demands that the U.N. authorities report on illegal imports or export to Libya of refined petroleum products and crude oil.

Article Credit: The National/ France24