Libya Presidential Council calls for power transfer to the interim government
(VOVworld)- Libya’s UN-backed Presidential Council has called on all institutions in the crisis-hit country to help facilitate a peaceful transfer of power to the interim unity government it proposed last month.
A handout picture released on February 4, 2016 shows a Presidential Council meeting headed by Libyan businessman Fayez al-Sarraj (C) in Tripoli. ©AFP |
In a statement released on Saturday, the Tunis-based council, which is tasked with guiding the nation through a transition to end the political chaos in Libya, further urged the global community to stop dealing with those Libyan parties that seek to hinder the formation of a unity government. The council urged “all Libyan sovereign and public institutions and the heads of financial bodies to start communicating immediately with the Government of National Accord so as to hand over power in a peaceful and orderly manner.”
Since August 2014, when militias seized the capital Tripoli, Libya has had two parliaments and two governments with one, the General National Congress (GNC), run by the rebels in the capital, and the internationally-recognized administration in Tobruk. Taking advantage of the political chaos, the Daesh terrorist group took control of Libya’s northern port city of Sirte in June 2015, almost four months after it announced its presence in the city, and made it the first city to be ruled by the militant group outside of Iraq and Syria.