UNSMIL head and SRSG Bathily tenders his resignation

Abdoulaye Bathily, Special Representative to the Secretary General (SRSG) and head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), announced at a press conference at the UN in New York on Monday that he had tendered his resignation to the UN Secretary General.

The decision has to be confirmed by Secretary General António Guterres.

The resignation announcement came immediately after yet another pessimistic report on the situation in Libya by Bathily to the UN Security Council. Bathily held no realistic prospects for elections in the near future.

Bathily was appointed in September 2022.

Bathily’s (final) brief on Libya to UNSC (libyaherald.com)

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‘‘One group of unwilling officials clinging to their seats must not be allowed to fail the people of Libya and put the region at the risk of further chaos’’, Bathily to UNSC (libyaherald.com)