Yesterday, World leaders agreed on a final communique at the Libya conference in Berlin chaired by Merkel with the participation of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, French President Emmanuel Macron, Algeria’s new President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, President Denis Sassou Ngueso of the Republic of Congo, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the head of foreign affairs in the Chinese communist party’s politburo Yang Jiechi, UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, UN Special Envoy to Libya Ghassan Salamé, African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat, European Parliament President Charles Michel, the head of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borell Fontelles and Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit.
Among the main points issued in the agreement is to create a new 5+5 Committee shared equally by the internationally recognized government in Tripoli and the pro Khalifa Hafter side.
The conclusions also emphasized that Berlin is a ”process” and that UNSMIL is to follow up and implement its conclusions through an International Follow-up Committee (IFC) made up of representatives of all those that participated in the conference.
The conclusions build upon the Paris, Palermo and Abu Dhabi processes and conclusions as well as the 2015 Skhirat Libyan Political Agreement and all relevant UN and UN Security Council resolutions. This includes UNSMIL’s Gassan Salame current ”Three-Point-Plan” for Libya.
In addition, the document called for the fight against terrorism and illegal migration and the enforcement of the arms embargo – as well as sanctions against those that break the embargo. It called for a permanent ceasefire and a mechanism to monitor it.
It also called for the equal distribution of wealth to remove grievances , the monopoly of the state on the legitimate use of force and the Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration of the Militias.
It also suggested respecting Libya’s sovereign institutions such as the Central Bank of Libya, the Libyan Investment Authority and the National Oil Corporation and for violators of international human rights laws to be held accountable.