A group of Libya’s House of Representatives (HoR) and High State Council (HSC) members held a consultative meeting in Cairo over the last two days.
According to the two bodies, the meeting was ostensibly to discuss ways to advance Libya’s political process towards a comprehensive solution that ends the institutional division and leads to holding presidential and parliamentary elections.
The final communique claimed that 96 (out of an elected 200) members of the HoR and 73 members of the HSC participated in the meeting.
The final communique said:
- The HoR and HSC stressed the need for the political process to remain in the hands of official Libyan institutions, while continuing communication between the two bodies through joint channels.
- The two bodies expressed their support for the outcomes of the tripartite meeting held in Cairo under the auspices of the League of Arab States in March 2024, which included the restructuring of the executive authority (the Tripoli based Libyan government).
- The statement stressed the need for the role of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) to be limited to the framework specified in the decision to establish it, which is to support Libyan institutions in accordance with the political agreement.
- The two councils declared their support for the right of the Palestinian people to establish their independent state, and their rejection of aggression against them, supporting the Egyptian and Arab position rejecting normalization, and calling on the Arab League to take a firm position.
- The two bodies agreed to hold a subsequent meeting in one of the Libyan cities to coordinate on the mechanisms for implementing what was agreed.
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