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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

US, Russia at Odds on Extending UN Libya Mission

Stephanie Williams, Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Support Mission attends the opening ceremony of the Libya's peace talks in Tunis, Nov. 9, 2020. (AP)

Russia and the United States were deadlocked Thursday over extending the UN mission in Libya, which ends January 31, with Moscow demanding the secretary-general’s American special advisor on Libya be replaced, diplomats said.

The vote on a resolution proposed by the United Kingdom to extend the UN’s Libya mission, UNSMIL, until September 15 had been planned for Thursday morning but was postponed indefinitely at the last minute.

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