The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said Thursday that the presidential statement on Libya on the Security Council, despite what the statement contained in welcoming the progress made at the level of the constitutional framework and the thirteenth amendment to the Constitutional Declaration, encourages an initiative aimed at forming a high-level Libyan team to follow up and prepare for the electoral process in Libya in the conflicts. It is clear on the role of the legitimate and elected Libyan institutions, according to the Egyptian statement.
This came in response to an inquiry from the Middle East News Agency, about Egypt’s assessment of the draft presidential statement of the Security Council on Libya, where the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “Ahmed Abu Zaid,” expressed his astonishment at the Security Council’s support for initiatives he described as vague and without specific criteria and objectives, in an attempt to confer legitimacy. On its work, using loose formulations such as “security actors”, which opens room for interpretation and contradiction with the relevant Security Council resolutions.
Abu Zeid added that all this would increase the state of division and rivalry on the Libyan scene, and undermine the chances of holding presidential and parliamentary elections as soon as possible within the framework of a Libyan national consensus, as he said.