APA-Rabat (Morocco) The United Nations, through the Secretary-General’s spokesman Stephane
Dujarric, expressed thanks on Wednesday to Morocco for its facilitation efforts to reach compromises on the electoral reforms in Libya.
Libyan stakeholders have been meeting in Bouznika over the electoral laws for their country.
“We thank Morocco for facilitating the efforts” of the members of the “6+6” joint commission, tasked by the Libyan House of Representatives and State Council with preparing the electoral laws, the spokesman stressed in response to a question at his daily press briefing in New York.
On Tuesday night, the “6+6” joint commission announced that after two weeks of meetings in Morocco, its members had reached a compromise on the laws governing the presidential and parliamentary elections
scheduled for the end of the year.
The final agreement on these laws will be debated in the coming days in the presence of the presidents of the Libyan House of Representatives and Council of State, said Jalal Shwehdi, a member of the House of Representatives, at the closing session of the 6+6 commission, which was attended by Omar Abu Lifa, member of the High Council of State, and Nasser Bourita, Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Speaking on the occasion, the Moroccan minister stressed that the conclusions of the meeting of the “6+6” joint commission represented an important step in the process of finding a definitive solution to the Libyan crisis.
This step can be decisive if it is accompanied by the implementation of compromises, as the Libyan House of Representatives and High Council of State are the only bodies empowered to pronounce on issues related to the organisation of elections, the minister said.
He noted that the two Libyan bodies have fulfilled, within the framework of the 6+6 commission, the missions assigned to them by the political agreement signed in Skhirat in 2016.
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