Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 3rd Oct. Abdoulaye Bathily, head of the UN mission in Libya on Monday pledged that the mission unilateral and competing initiatives’ being proposed by authorities in the divided Libya to rebuild the city of Derna, and other flood-affected areas.
Abdoulaye Bathily, Special Representative, said that plans floated by different institutions and leaders for reconstruction, run the risk of deepening the existing rift between the internationally recognized Government and rival administration in the east.
He added that rebuilding could be impeded without an agreed plan going forward, and that failure to unify was “at odds with the outpouring of solidarity, support and national unity shown by Libyan people from all corners of the country in response to the crisis.”
“UNSMIL calls on all relevant Libyan national and local authorities and Libya’s international partners to facilitate agreement on a unified and coordinated Libyan national mechanism to direct the recovery and reconstruction efforts and to ensure transparency and accountability”, he stated.
He urged Libya’s leaders “to rise above divisions and come together to agree on a unified response to the reconstruction needs”,
Abdoulaye Bathily said the disaster caused by Storm Daniel has killed thousands and destroyed swathes of the northeast “also underscores the imperative to expedite negotiations on breaking the political stalemate.”
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