Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) Hanna Tetteh recently delivered her usual update on Libya to the UN Security Council, detailing the country’s political deadlock, economic pressures, and stalled transition.
Ordinarily, such sessions are followed by a short Security Council communiqué reaffirming the core principles of the UN process: support for Libyan sovereignty, the need for political progress and, crucially, a renewed call for elections. However, the statement was delayed by multiple days, and had a major omission.
According to sources within the UN Secretariat and several Security Council delegations who spoke to The Geopolitical Desk, the delay stemmed from the use of the term “elections”
