United Nations Support Mission in Libya

UNSMIL
operation area	Libya
German name	Support Mission of the United Nations in Libya
English name	United Nations Support Mission in Libya
Based on UN resolution	2009 (September 16, 2011)
Other UN resolutions	2040 (2012), 2095 (2013), 2144 (2014), 2238 (2015), 2259 (2016), 2273 (2016), 2278 (2016), 2291 (2016), 2298 (2016), 2323 (2016), 2362 (2017), 2376 (2017)
Beginning	September 2011
status	ongoing
management	Stephanie Turco Williams
Deaths	200
Map overview	Libya

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya ( UNSMIL ; German  support mission of the United Nations in Libya ) is a political mission of the United Nations , which is based on the UN resolution 2009 of September 16, 2011.

organization

It reports to the Department of Political Affairs and is headed by a Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations . From 2011 to 2012 this was the Briton Ian Martin . He was replaced by the Lebanese Tarek Mitri , whose deputy is the Finnish diplomat Georg Charpentier . Its headquarters are in Tripoli , with further offices in Benghazi and Sabha . Their mandate was last extended to 2014 by UN resolution 2095. In January 2013 it had 205 employees. In September 2014 the Spaniard Bernardino León became head of the mission, then the German diplomat Martin Kobler in November 2015 , and the Lebanese Ghassan Salamé in June 2017 . After his resignation for health reasons, the American Stephanie Turco Williams was temporarily entrusted with the management on March 11, 2020 .

tasks

Its task is to assist the Libyan authorities in establishing an administration based on the rule of law and a constitutional state as well as in organizing elections. The rights of women and minorities are to be particularly protected. It is also intended to prevent the illegal proliferation of weapons, particularly ground-based anti-aircraft missiles , to protect the Libyan borders, to assist with mine clearance and to promote the reintegration of combatants into society.

Since January 2015, UNSMIL has been participating in negotiations between the warring parties in Geneva to end the second Libyan civil war .

Web links

• Official website of the mission (multilingual)
• Mission's official YouTube channel
• How the UN wants to break the power of the militias - FAZ.net, October 2, 2017

See also

• Libya Civil War 2011
• Civil war in Libya since 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/personnel-appointments/2020-03-11/ms-stephanie-turco-williams-of-the-united-states-acting-special-representative -head-of-united-nations-support-mission-libya- (unsmil)
2. ↑ UNSMIL website, Background ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ UNSMIL website, mandates ( memento of the original from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.