{"id":21388,"date":"2015-11-25T09:50:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T09:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/un-welcomes-southern-libya-peace-urges-national\/"},"modified":"2015-11-25T09:50:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T09:50:39","slug":"un-welcomes-southern-libya-peace-urges-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/un-welcomes-southern-libya-peace-urges-national\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Welcomes Southern Libya Peace, Urges National Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The United Nations welcomed a peace agreement signed by two tribes in southern Libya and reiterated its calls for the approval of a national pact to end more than a year of political crisis in the country.}<\/p>\n<p>Qatar brokered the deal between the Tuareg and Tebu tribes in the town of Ubari, and the state-run QNA news agency said it includes a permanent cease-fire and the return of displaces people to their homes. A joint statement between the two sides urged all Libyans to reconcile and work together to build their country.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations has been working to broker a national agreement between two competing governments, one recognized by the international community based in Tobruk and another in Tripoli.<\/p>\n<p>A U.N. spokesman said Tuesday the tribal deal is an important development and that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hopes Qatar can again use its influence on a national scale.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All such local initiatives aimed at cease-fires and reconciliation will need to be complemented by a nationwide political agreement in order to minimize potential conflict going forward,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The new U.N. envoy for Libya, Martin Kobler, held talks with officials in Tripoli and Tobruk on Saturday and Sunday and said &#8220;it is the time to conclude an agreement.&#8221;  He called on both sides to vote on a deal as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do not want the Libyan people to suffer from the lack of medicines in hospitals,&#8221; Kobler said.  &#8220;We do not want to have internally displaced persons.  We want prosperity in this country; prosperity means that there must be security and a sound political development.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-9344 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/d56fc249-4980-4a97-9004-3c352e811d72_w640_r1_s.jpg\" alt=\"United Nations Special Representative and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya, Martin Kobler speaks during a news conference in Tripoli, Nov. 22, 2015\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>SOURCE:VOICE OF AMERICA:[UN Welcomes Southern Libya Peace, Urges National Deal ->http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/content\/un-welcomes-southern-libya-peace-urges-national-deal\/3072929.html]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The United Nations welcomed a peace agreement signed by two tribes in southern Libya and reiterated its calls for the approval of a national pact to end more than a year of political crisis in the country.} Qatar brokered the deal between the Tuareg and Tebu tribes in the town of Ubari, and the state-run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000070376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[100],"byline":[2475],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-21388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-africa","byline-voice-of-america"],"bylines":[{"id":2475,"name":"VOICE OF AMERICA","slug":"voice-of-america","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2475,"name":"VOICE OF AMERICA","slug":"voice-of-america","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":{"id":2000070376,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21388.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21388.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21388.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21388.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21388.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21388.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000070376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21388"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=21388"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=21388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}