Russia ready for constructive work on UN SC resolution on Libya - Russian UN ambassador

UNITED NATIONS, February 19. /TASS/. Russia is ready for a constructive work on a Jordan-initiated United Nations Security Council resolution on Libya, Russia’s Permanent Representative at the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said on Wednesday. "I think this is a serious resolution and a serious initiative. I have reassured Jordan’s delegation and other members of the Security Council that we are ready for a constructive work," he told journalists. "We are confident that in this situation there is a serious necessity and a possibility for the Security Council to take consolidated efforts, because we all want stability in Libya." He confirmed that the draft resolution provided for lifting the ban on arms supplies to Libya. Libya’s Foreign Minister Mohammed al-Deiri said on Wednesday at a session of the UN Security Council that his country needed military assistance on the part of the international community to fight with Isis and other terrorist grouping that are operating on its territory, the country’s. He said the international community was to reaffirm its commitments to the people of Libya in what concerned restructuring of the national Armed Forces. The Russian diplomat noted that Arab countries wanted the Security Council to waste no time and pass this resolution. Much will depend on the outcome of the mission of Bernardino Leon, the Special Representative of the United Nation Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya /UNSMIL/, who is negotiating the establishment of a government of national accord in Libya. "Let us wait and see," Churkin said. "We will work very tightly in the next several days. We hope Mr. Leon’s mission will be successful. There is hope he will manage to help form the government of national accord in the shortest span of time." Read more