Benghazi: The UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, met in Benghazi yesterday with Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar.
‘Today in Benghazi, I held consultations with Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar. We reviewed the situation and agreed on the necessity to accelerate our collective efforts to put the country on the electoral track as soon as possible and to unify Libyan institutions.’ Bathily said in a tweet.
‘We also reviewed the overall security landscape considering the regional situation and emphasized the need to implement relevant Security Council resolutions pertaining to foreign forces, foreign fighters, and mercenaries to ensure a safe, stable, and prosperous Libya,’ he added.
Source: Libyan News Agency
A meeting in Sana’a, on Tuesday, headed by the Deputy Minister of Water and Environment, Hanin Al-Duraib, and including the head of the Water and Environmental Sanitation Department at UNICEF, Peter Harvey, discussed the partnership mechanism between the ministry and the organization in implementing water and environmental sanitation projects.
The meeting, which was attended by the head of the General Authority for Rural Water Projects, Adel Saleh Bader, the directors of the urban cities projects units, Mohammed Al-Shami, the emergency department, Abdul Karim Al-Akhram, and the national coordinator of the water and environmental sanitation cluster, Tawfiq Al-Haroush, reviewed the priority projects within UNICEF’s plan for the year 2024 AD.
He touched on what was agreed upon in the last meeting with UNICEF Resident Representative in Yemen, Peter Hawkins, regarding the emergency unit’s exceptions to the recent commitments resolution and the continuation of periodic meetings to study and follow up on the proj
ects being implemented and address the difficulties of stalled projects.
The attendees discussed the projects approved within the plan and the reasons for their failure to implement them, including pumping and geophysical device testing projects, and what was reached regarding operating water projects with wind energy, and the emphasis on accelerating the procedures for testing their operation, as one of the alternatives to using diesel.
The meeting stressed the need to resume UNICEF’s support for the Capacity Building Project in Community Justice – Phase Two, networking and accelerating the procedures for completing the second phase of evaluating the remaining institutions and branches of the safe withdrawal from fuel, as well as UNICEF’s commitments to keep pace with the existing needs to implement the units’ activities.
In the meeting; The Deputy Minister of Water and Environment welcomed the Head of the Water and Environmental Sanitation Department, Peter Harvey, succeeding George Tabbal, stressing the
need for UNICEF to play its role in implementing water and environmental sanitation projects, which alleviates the suffering of the Yemenis in light of the repercussions of the American-British-Saudi-Emirati aggression and blockade on Yemen.
He stressed the need to set a timetable for the UNICEF team to visit the regions, units and governorates, review the needs of water and sanitation projects, and learn about the successes achieved in implementing the projects in accordance with the work mechanism and partnership between the ministry and the organization.
Source: Yemen News Agency
