The UN Security Council has unanimously passed a resolution which calls for all foreign forces and mercenaries to leave Libya and gives the green light for a UN team to monitor last October’s historic ceasefire agreement. The Security Council resolution underlines that the Libyan 5+5 Joint Military Commission needs to develop a broader plan specifying how the ceasefire mechanism will be implemented, and how UNSMIL monitors can be deployed. The monitoring mechanism resolution (2570), also “strongly urges” member states to support the October ceasefire agreement, including the withdrawal of all foreign forces and mercenaries from Libya without delay. According to Dujarric, adding that UNSMIL monitors will be working alongside the monitors of the 5+5 Joint Military Commission. In a second vote announced on Friday afternoon in New York, ambassadors also passed a resolution unanimously, renewing measures relating to the illicit export of petroleum, through to 30 July, 2022.

Source: Libya Observer April 17, 2021 13:51 UTC