The UN envoy to Libya, Slovakia’s Jan Kubis, resigned less than a year after taking office in January, according to diplomatic sources at the UN today.
“Koubis has resigned,” said a diplomat who asked not to be named, which was confirmed by several other diplomatic sources. No official reason has been given for the sudden resignation at this time, a month before the scheduled presidential election in Libya, the diplomats added.
He may “feel he does not have enough support,” a diplomatic source told AFP.
The UN Security Council recently split over whether to reshuffle the UN mission in Libya, with several members of the council demanding that the envoy’s position be rescheduled from Geneva to Tripoli.
According to diplomats, Jan Kubis was reluctant to transfer his position.
No comment has been made following a request to the UN Communications Service.
Former Slovak Foreign Minister, who also served as UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon and UN Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Iraq, Jan Koubis, 69, took over as Libya’s special envoy to Libya last year. , who resigned from the post last March due to intense stress.
His sudden departure from the Libyan dossier comes on the eve of the closing of the nominations for the post of head of state in the elections of December 24. According to the Libyan Supreme Electoral Authority (HNEC), 98 candidates, including two women, submitted their candidacy for the presidency.
Among the most prominent candidates are Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, General de Khalifa Haftar, who controls de facto control of eastern Libya, powerful former Interior Minister Fati Bashaba, and caretaker Prime Minister Najib.
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