The Libyan Permanent Representative to the UN, Taher Al-Sonni, described his meeting in New York, with the team of the UN Elections Support Department and the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (UNDPPA), as a productive meeting focused on the support needed for Libya in preparation of the upcoming elections.

“We reiterated the importance of the UN and other international and regional organizations role in providing support for the elections in the country, in parallel with the finalization of the constitutional framework and electoral laws, in order to assure fair, transparent, and credible elections.” Al-Sonni said in a tweet.

According to Al-Sonni, the meeting came before a team from the UN Election Support Department visited Libya in support of the upcoming elections this year.

Source: Libyan News Agency