The UN Adviser to Libya, Stephanie Williams, renewed her call on Friday to open Libyan airspace to domestic flights, stressing that “freedom of movement throughout the country is a basic human right that must be respected.”
In this regard, Williams said, on her Twitter account, that she joins her voice with the voice of the Libyans in calling on the relevant authorities to resume civilian flights without any delay, in reference to the suspension of domestic flights, especially between Tripoli and Benghazi for the sixteenth consecutive day.
It should be noted that the aviation authorities closed the Libyan airspace to internal flights among Libyan airports, on 3 March, while the Libyan Prime Minister, Fathi Bashagha, accused the National Unity Government headed by Abdul Hamid Al-Dabaiba, of being behind this measure, which Bashagha described at the time as a way to obstruct the arrival of his government ministers from the western region to Tobruk to take the constitutional oath, and stated that he had submitted a complaint to the Attorney General to take the necessary legal measures in this regard.
