A UN mediation effort to help Libya's rival camps reach an agreement on a constitutional framework for elections failed again on Monday, leaving the country's political crisis with no end in sight. "The third and final round of negotiations between the House of Representatives and the HCE on the Libyan constitutional track ended in the early hours of 20 June," the UN Secretary-General's Special Adviser on Libya, Stephanie Williams of the United States, announced on Twitter. "Differences remain on the measures governing the transitional period leading up to the elections," she conceded, although the "joint committee reached broad consensus on contentious articles of the draft Libyan Constitution. In her capacity as Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on Libya, Ms Williams called on the presidents of the two chambers "to meet within ten days to resolve the outstanding issues". The holding of presidential and parliamentary elections at a foreseeable date, postponed indefinitely to December 2021, seems highly unlikely because of the very strong differences between political rivals and tensions on the ground.

Source: Libya Today June 20, 2022 14:45 UTC