An advance team of about ten UN observers arrived in Tripoli on Tuesday to prepare for the task of overseeing the ceasefire that has been in place in Libya for months and to verify the departure of mercenaries and foreign soldiers deployed in the country, according to sources cited by Agence France-Presse.
A diplomatic source in Tunis explained, according to AFP, that this team, consisting of representatives of members of the United Nations Mission in Libya and experts from the United Nations headquarters in New York, arrived in Tripoli on Tuesday from the Tunisian capital.
The monitors are supposed to visit the city of Sirte, on a mission that will last for five weeks, which is to prepare for the deployment of observers at a later time in the ceasefire monitoring mechanism, according to the same source.
A diplomatic source in New York stated that this mission would submit to the Security Council on March 19 a report on the ceasefire and the departure of the foreign forces monitoring mechanism.
