The Kingdom of Morocco is hosting two delegations from the House of Representatives and the High Council of State to hold a round of political dialogue, sponsored by the United Nations Mission for Support in Libya, headed by Stephanie Williams, after years of suspension due rejection by some parliamentary blocs and members of the High Council of State.
Since the drafting dialogue in Tunisia in October 2017, direct communication in the form of joint committees between the House of Representatives, which has legislative powers, and the High Council of State (HCS) which has advisory powers, was cut off in accordance with the political agreement that was endorsed after a 15-month dialogue from Ghadames to Skhirat, Morocco.
The Morocco-based dialogue, which will be held officially on Monday, will discuss the sovereign positions mentioned in Article 15 of the political agreement, namely, the Governor of the Central Bank of Libya, the Head of the Audit Bureau, the Head of the Administrative Control Authority, the Head of the Anti-Corruption Commission, the President and members of the High Electoral Commission, the President of the Supreme Court and the Attorney General.
The dialogue in Morocco has also generated refusal as the central movement said in a statement that the entire bloc, which numbered 27 deputies, had not been informed or consulted in the formation of the House of Representatives committee, adding that the selection of the dialogue delegation did not take place through the Chamber of Deputies where the Parliament was not invited to convene to elect the committee in accordance with what Law No.4 of 2014 regulating the work of the House of Representatives stipulates.
The statement was preceded by a statement by 24 members of the High Council of State, in which they rejected Khaled Al-Mishri’s reduction of the decision and the selected group, expressing their rejection of choosing the delegation that will represent the country in the dialogue round.
The UN mission relies heavily on this dialogue to bring points of view closer and create negotiation tracks that revive the political track to cool down field tensions in the vicinity of Sirte and the Jufra region.
The direct dialogue, or what is known as 5+5, comes as an introduction to a dialogue that will bring together a team of politicians, jurists, and former officials in the Swiss city of Geneva under the auspices of the Humanitarian Dialogue Center, and it complements the military dialogue organized by the UN mission, as Stephanie Williams mentioned in her last briefing that she had held two rounds with the Libyan Army General Command’d team.
She said three rounds with the Government of National Accord team in the hope of silencing the guns’ voice and reaching understandable formulas for the outstanding files and solutions to major problems, especially the foreign presence and the spread of armed formations.
