Guterres proposes 2 new envoys to Libya, Middle East

SANAA, Dec. 15 (YPA) – Diplomats said, “The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, has proposed two new envoys to mediate in the conflicts in Libya and the Middle East, and that the United Nations Security Council could give the green light on them on Tuesday, after months of delay.
Guterres proposed his current envoy to the Middle East, Nikolai Mladenov, to become his special envoy to Libya to succeed Ghassan Salameh, who stepped down due to stress, and the veteran Norwegian diplomat Toure Vennesland has been nominated to succeed Mladenov as a mediator for the United Nations between Israel and the Palestinians.
If there are no objections from any of the 15 member states of the Security Council, by Tuesday evening, their appointments will be approved and end months of bickering caused by the United States’ pressure to divide the international organization’s role in Libya into an envoy running the UN political mission, and another Focuses on mediating the conflict, according to Reuters.
The Security Council approved this proposal in September. According to letters at the time, Guterres proposed the Bulgarian diplomat Mladenov for the Libya mission last month, and on Friday he nominated Fisland as the current Norwegian special envoy for the Middle East peace process.
Mladenov has been the United Nations envoy to the Middle East since 2015.