The United States Ambassador to Libya Richard Norland said that his country is working with key actors on all sides to maintain stability, starting with efforts to ensure that Libya’s vast oil wealth is not used for partisan political purposes.
Norland stressed in a phone call with Parliament Speaker Aqila Saleh on Friday the need to use the country’s oil wealth to meet the most important needs of the Libyan people, indicating his support for the efforts of leaders, including the Speaker of Parliament, to agree on a Libyan-led mechanism to facilitate and monitor these expenses.
Norland explained that the most important issue for the United States is the need for sufficient political consensus, acceptance and credibility with the Libyan people across the country to lead the country to elections, adding that with the end of the preliminary stage of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum next June, it has become more important than any time, to organize elections that could move Libya beyond the endless cycle of transitional governments.