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US Calls for Legal Framework for Libya’s Elections

Bathily reiterated the importance of the 6+6 committee’s role and responsibilities to produce the laws necessary to hold general and inclusive elections in Libya. Photo: UNSMIL’s Twitter Account
Bathily reiterated the importance of the 6+6 committee’s role and responsibilities to produce the laws necessary to hold general and inclusive elections in Libya. Photo: UNSMIL’s Twitter Account
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US Calls for Legal Framework for Libya’s Elections

Bathily reiterated the importance of the 6+6 committee’s role and responsibilities to produce the laws necessary to hold general and inclusive elections in Libya. Photo: UNSMIL’s Twitter Account
Bathily reiterated the importance of the 6+6 committee’s role and responsibilities to produce the laws necessary to hold general and inclusive elections in Libya. Photo: UNSMIL’s Twitter Account

The United States has renewed its call for an agreement on a legal framework for the delayed presidential and parliamentary elections in Libya.

US Ambassador Richard Norland said in a tweet that his country supported the call of Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya Abdoulaye Bathily “for the 6+6 committee to reach agreement on a legal framework for elections and urge all of Libya’s political leadership to bring their influence to bear without delay.”

Meanwhile, Bathily received a delegation of the 6+6 committee at the headquarters of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya in Tripoli.

“Bathily reiterated the importance of the committee’s role and responsibilities to produce the laws necessary to hold general and inclusive elections in Libya,” UNSMIL said on Twitter on Saturday.

“Bathily joined by UNSMIL’s technical team, exchanged views with committee members on issues related to legal framework for elections. He renewed the Mission’s offer to provide all required support to enable the committee to conclude its work as soon as possible,” it added.

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Hezbollah Chief Pledges to Coordinate with Lebanese Army to Implement Truce

A view of the destruction in the southern Lebanese village of Mais al-Jabal, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, northern Israel, 29 November 2024. (EPA)
A view of the destruction in the southern Lebanese village of Mais al-Jabal, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, northern Israel, 29 November 2024. (EPA)
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Hezbollah Chief Pledges to Coordinate with Lebanese Army to Implement Truce

A view of the destruction in the southern Lebanese village of Mais al-Jabal, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, northern Israel, 29 November 2024. (EPA)
A view of the destruction in the southern Lebanese village of Mais al-Jabal, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, northern Israel, 29 November 2024. (EPA)

The head of Hezbollah, Sheikh Naim Qassem, pledged on Friday to coordinate closely with the Lebanese army to implement a ceasefire deal with Israel, which he said his group had agreed to "with heads held high".

It was his first address since a ceasefire came into effect on Wednesday after more than a year of hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel that decimated swathes of Lebanon and killed 4,000 people including hundreds of women and children.

Qassem said Hezbollah had "approved the deal, with the resistance strong in the battlefield, and our heads held high with our right to defend (ourselves)."

The ceasefire stipulates that Hezbollah will withdraw from areas south of the Litani river, which runs some 30 km (20 miles) north of the border with Israel, and that the Lebanese army will deploy troops there as Israeli ground troops withdraw.

"There will be high-level coordination between the Resistance (Hezbollah) and the Lebanese army to implement the commitments of the deal," Qassem said.

The Lebanese army has already sent additional troops to the south but is preparing a detailed deployment plan to share with Lebanon's cabinet, security sources and officials have said.

That effort has been complicated by the continuing presence of Israeli troops on Lebanese territory. The deal grants them a full 60 days to complete their withdrawal.

The Israeli military has issued restrictions on people returning to villages along Lebanon's border with Israel and has fired at people in those villages in recent days, calling those movements a violation of the truce.

Both the Lebanese army and Hezbollah have accused Israel of breaching the ceasefire in those instances, and by launching an airstrike above the Litani River on Thursday.

Qassem said the group had scored a "divine victory" against Israel even greater than that declared after the two foes last fought in 2006.

"To those that were betting that Hezbollah would be weakened, we are sorry, their bets have failed," he said.