Libya unveils UN-backed government … based in Tunisia

The Guardian ^ | Tuesday 19 January 2016 12.48 EST | Chris Stephen

[Pan_Yan]

A new UN-backed Libyan government has been unveiled and tasked with uniting its warring factions, but rejection by leaders of the two existing parliaments leaves a question mark over its future.

The prime minister, Fayez Sarraj, has appointed a 32-member cabinet tasked with ending the civil war, stemming immigration to Europe and halting the expansion of Islamic State. But for now the new government of national accord is based in a hotel in Tunis, capital of neighbouring Tunisia, after Libya was deemed too unsafe.

Sarraj’s government is the result of more than a year of mediation by the UN, whose Libya envoy, Martin Kobler, said: “The formation of the government of national accord is one important leap on the path to peace and stability in Libya. Hard work lies ahead.”

The government’s first task is to persuade the existing parliaments in Tripoli and Tobruk, at war with each other from opposite ends of the country, to drop their opposition.

[lodi90]

Libya is a failed state but the kenyan wants to tape something together their as cover while he tip toes out of the White Hut.

[BenLurkin]

The more nations which can be de-stabilized — the more people the United Nations will come to rule over directly.

That should please the Hillarys and Bernies of the world.

[Navy Patriot]

Libya unveils UN-backed government - based in Tunisia

Why didn't they just give 'em an office in the UN building in New York and avoid the long distance charges?

[Pan_Yan]

They aren’t really ruling over anyone in Libya but it sure is a great redistribution strategy. The UN and African Union for two decades have been paying the full time salaries of a Somali government that doesn’t control anything. Most of their legislators have never set foot in their home districts. Libya is becoming the same, except with oil.