Agreement for a Complete and Permanent Ceasefire in Libya

• Country/entity

  Libya
  
• Region

  Middle East and North Africa
  
• Agreement name

  Agreement for a Complete and Permanent Ceasefire in Libya
• Date

  23 Oct 2020
• Agreement status

  Multiparty signed/agreed
• Interim arrangement

  Yes
• Agreement/conflict level

  Intrastate/intrastate conflict ( Libyan Conflicts (1969 - 1994) (2011 - ) )
• Stage

  Ceasefire/related
• Conflict nature

  Government/territory
• Peace process

  Libyan peace process
• Parties

  Representatives of the Libyan Army
  Major General Ahmed Ali Abu Shahma
  Brigadier General Al-mukhtar Milad Mohammed Nakkassa
  Brigadier General Al-Fitouri Khalifa Salem
  Colonel Mustafa Ali Mohammed Yahya
  Colonel Radwan Ibrahim Mohammed Al-Gharari
  
  Representatives of the Libyan National Army/ General Command
  Major General Emraja’a Emhammed Mohammed Al-Ammami
  Major General Faraj El-mabrouk Abdul Ghani Al-Soussa’a
  Major General Attiya Awadh Mohamed Al-Sharif
  Staff Major General Engineer Al-Hadi Hasan Ahmed Al-Falah
  Major General Khairi Khalifa omar Al-Timimi
• Third parties

  Witness
  United Nations Support Mission in Libya
  Ms. Stephanie Williams, Acting Special Representative of the UN Secretary General and Head of UNSMIL
  Mr. Salim Raad, Head of Security Institutions Service, UNSMIL Mr. Ayed Alhamad Khalayleh, Senior Police Advisor, UNSMIL Mr. Ali Kilkal, Security Institutions Service, UNMSIL
• Description

  Agreement providing for a complete and permanent ceasefire between the Libyan Army of the Government of National Accord (GNA) and the Libyan National Army of the General Command of the Armed Forces

• Agreement document

  LY_201023_ceasefire_agreement_between_libyan_parties_english.pdf | Download PDF

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Implementation

Agreement for a Complete and Permanent Ceasefire in Libya

(Unofficial translation)

A complete and permanent agreement for ceasefire in Libya between the Libyan Army of the Government of National Accord (GNA) and the Libyan National Army of the General Command of the Armed Forces was signed below by their authorized representatives and witnessed by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) .

The Agreement is the result of the United Nations mediation, with the support of the states participating in the Berlin Conference held on 19 January 2020, and of its relentless efforts to end the violence and humanitarian crisis from the continued armed conflict in Libya.

The Agreement is based on paragraphs 4 and 6 of UN Security Council resolution 2510 (2020), which called upon the 5+5 Joint Military Committee (JMC) to reach and commit to an agreement for a permanent ceasefire,

The two parties agreed on the following:

I. General Principles:

Emphasize the territorial integrity of Libya and protection of its land, air and sea borders.

Refrain from holding hostage the national decision-making and resources of the country to any external power.

Combating terrorism is a common national policy, in which all political and security state institutions shall take part.

The human rights and rules of the International Humanitarian Law should be respected.

The terms of this Agreement shall cover the entire Libyan territory:

Land, sea and air.

II. Terms of Agreement:

The 5+5 JMC agreed on an immediate ceasefire, which shall take effect from the signature of this Agreement.

Within a period of three months of the date of signing of this Ceasefire Agreement , all military units and armed groups shall clear all confrontation lines and return to their camps;

in parallel, all mercenaries and foreign fighters shall depart from the Libyan territories - land, air and sea.

Until a new unified government assumes its functions, military agreements on training inside Libya shall be suspended and training crews shall depart.

The Security Operation Room established under this Agreement shall propose and implement special security arrangements to secure the areas cleared of military units and armed groups.

The 5+5 JMC agreed to form a limited military force of regular military personnel under an Operation Room to be established by the 5+5 JMC to deter expected violations, and the resources necessary for this operation shall be provided by all parties and actors .

Immediately start identification and categorization of armed groups and armed entities on the entire Libyan territory, whether they are integrated into state institutions or not.

Their status shall be defined and prepared for dismantlement in terms of their leaders, number of personnel, weapons and locations.

A mechanism and conditions shall be developed to ensure reintegration on individual basis, of their members, into state institutions for those who meet the requirements and specifications of each institution and on the basis of the actual need of these institutions.

Otherwise, a joint subcommittee with the support and participation of UNSMIL shall create opportunities and find solutions for those who do not meet the requirements or are unwilling to undergo such integration.

Halt the currently rampant media escalation and hate speech by of audiovisual broadcasting channels and websites.

The judicial and competent authorities shall be called upon to take the necessary measures to ensure serious and deterrent prosecution of these channels and websites.

UNSMIL also calls for necessary measures to be taken to ensure that the administrations of social media applications shall take the necessary action regarding these platforms.

To this end, the JMC decided to establish a sub-committee to follow up on hate speech and pursue the necessary actions.

The JMC also decided to address a direct message to all audio-visual broadcasting channels not to broadcast any media material that includes such type of rhetoric .

6. The JMC agreed to open the roads and land and air crossings across the Libyan territories, provided that urgent measures be taken by opening and securing the following roads:

Coastal road of Benghazi-Sirte-Misurata- Tripoli .

Misurata-Abu Grain-Jufra-Sabha-Ghat .

The road of Gheryan-Shwerif- Sabha-Murzug .

To this end, the 5+5 JMC supports the proposals concluded by the Joint Security Arrangements Committee that met in Hurghada, Egypt on 28 and 29 September 2020 and calls for arrangements to secure the safe passage of civilians, supply convoys and humanitarian organizations across those roads as per the following:

A joint security room shall be formed, headed by the police officers who participated in the Hurghada meetings, to propose and implement special security arrangements that ensure safe passage across the aforementioned roads and other roads throughout the entire Libyan territory, as well as the areas cleared of military units and armed formations .

The 5+5 JMC shall select and define the duties of the Command of the Security Operation Room and his Deputies.

The target roads shall be cleared of any military or armed forces once the joint force assumes duties.

The aforementioned command shall form the force assigned to secure the roads, on the basis of criteria of competence, experience and discipline.

The 5+5 JMC agreed to assign the Commander of the Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG) in the Western Region, the Commander of the Petroleum Facilities Guard in the Eastern Region, and a delegate from the National Oil Corporation to liaise and submit a proposal to the 5+5 JMC the for restructuring and reorganizing the PFG, so as to ensure undisturbed and continued flow of oil.

7. End arrest based on identity or political affiliation, and limit prosecution and arrest to those wanted for criminal reasons and refer them to the relevant authorities.

8. The JMC agreed to take urgent measures for exchange of those detained as a result of military operations or arrest based on identity by forming specialized committees from the concerned parties .

9. In light of the prevailing positive atmosphere and complete confidence, the 5+5 JMC, in conjunction with UNSMIL team, will develop a mechanism to monitor the implementation of this Agreement.

10. The ceasefire shall not apply to the UN-designated terrorist groups across the Libyan territory.

12. The 5+5 JMC recommends and urges UNSMIL to forward the Ceasefire Agreement signed by the JMC to the Security Council to adopt a resolution to ensure compliance and implementation of this Agreement by all internal and external parties .

This Agreement is signed at Palais des Nations, Geneva at 11:00 AM Friday, 23

October 2020.