Berlin Agreement Libya

On 12 Jan­u­ary, the par­ties to the con­flict announced a cease­fire in response to a joint appeal by the Turk­ish and Russ­ian lead­ers. But talks on a last­ing cease­fire last week end­ed with­out a deal, after Haf­tar left Moscow with­out sign­ing the agree­ment. “Signs of pos­i­tiv­i­ty at this meet­ing would be a sign of good faith in the way the Secu­ri­ty Coun­cil treats the Berlin agree­ment, but if we fail to make progress, the process could be com­pro­mised,” said Tarek Megerisi, a mem­ber of the Euro­pean Coun­cil on Exter­nal Rela­tions. “We agreed on a com­pre­hen­sive plan,” she said, adding that new mea­sures had also been agreed to strict­ly com­ply with the arms embar­go. The Libyan peace process is a series of meet­ings, agree­ments and actions aimed at resolv­ing Libya‘s sec­ond civ­il war. These include the Decem­ber 2015 skhi­rat agreement[1] and plans for the Libyan Nation­al Con­fer­ence in April 2019[2], which were delayed due to the 2019/20 cam­paign in west­ern Libya. [3] It can pro­vide infor­ma­tion on the recent activ­i­ties of the Joint Mil­i­tary Com­mis­sion 5–5 (part of the “safe­ty bas­ket”). Mr. Al-Sar­raj and Mr.

Haf­tar each appoint­ed five rep­re­sen­ta­tives to the Com­mis­sion. In Res­o­lu­tion 2510, the Coun­cil called for the 5–5 Com­mis­sion meet­ings to con­tin­ue with the aim of approv­ing a per­ma­nent cease­fire. The first round of 5–5 com­mit­tee talks began on 3 Feb­ru­ary in Gene­va and Salamé con­duct­ed a shut­tle diplo­ma­cy between the two sides. The sec­ond round began on Feb­ru­ary 18. The next day, the GNA announced that it was sus­pend­ing its par­tic­i­pa­tion in the talks after an LNA attack on the port of Tripoli. How­ev­er, dis­cus­sions con­tin­ued with the par­tic­i­pa­tion of both par­ties and the sec­ond round end­ed. Accord­ing to UNMIL, the par­ties to the con­flict have agreed on a draft cease­fire agree­ment and will sub­mit it “to their respec­tive lead­ers for fur­ther con­sul­ta­tions”; They also agreed to “meet again next month to resume talks.” The fourth round of the Libyan Joint Mil­i­tary Com­mis­sion 5–5 began on 19 Octo­ber 2020 in Gene­va, under the chair­man­ship of Williams. [69] On 24 Octo­ber, par­tic­i­pants signed an imme­di­ate and last­ing cease­fire agree­ment through­out Libya. [70] The agree­ment included:[17] The out­come of the ear­ly Feb­ru­ary meet­ing of the two par­ties was a con­sen­sus on sev­er­al prin­ci­ples, includ­ing the defence of Libyan ter­ri­to­ry, Libya‘s inde­pen­dence from inter­na­tion­al inter­fer­ence, resis­tance to “ter­ror­ist groups iden­ti­fied by the Unit­ed Nations (Al-Qae­da, ISIS, Ansar al-Sharia) ” and sup­port for the role of an inter­na­tion­al par­lia­men­tary com­mit­tee (UNSPA) in the exchange of pris­on­ers and the return of remains.