Arakan News Agency
The new UN envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salame, has announced the end of the work of the committee concerned to investigate violations of the Muslim minority in the Myanmar state of Southeast Asia, led by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
“I am happy today that the work of the Myanmar committee is over, after a year of hard work, allowing me to devote myself to a new, difficult and exciting task, along with the brotherly people of Aziz,” Salame wrote on Twitter on Friday.
On June 20, the UN Security Council approved the appointment of former Lebanese Minister of Culture Ghassan Salame as UN envoy to Libya, replacing Martin Kobler, who has been leading the UN mission since November 2015.
The appointment culminated in four months of searching for a person to head the United Nations political mission in Libya, which oversees the process of political dialogue between the parties of the Libyan crisis and the formation of a unified government to manage the country during the rest of the transitional period.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Antonio Guterres, supported the appointment of Salame in this post after the other names of the leadership of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya was rejected by a number of members of the Council.
