They have to be positive. They have to see what this process is going to bring to the country, and not to be concerned of what they would have liked to see in the text or to see as outcome of this process and will not be there. This is not the question today, the question today is to get Libya back to track to build, peace development, prosperity in the country.
And the most important element that many Libyans are asking today and especially in the last hours and today many Libyans in the east, many Libyans in Benghazi, is security. I’m here representing the United Nations but we are accompanied by many ambassadors of many countries in the international community we have all expressed on many occasions our solidarity with those who are suffering in Libya, displaced people, mothers, children, people who cannot go to school, who cannot find food medicines and this is especially tough in Benghazi.
It is a city that is facing a very, an extremely difficult situation and it’s a city that is suffering is terms of solidarity. Our solidarity also with the city, with the people that are suffering attacks from groups, terrorist groups that are on the list of international organizations that are considered terrorist by United Nations Security Council resolutions, and obviously this solidarity today is translated in our fill support to the only weapon that will allow the Libyans to prevail in this battle, which is unity. Without unity, without an agreement that will allow the Libyans to work together to achieve security there will not be a possibility to prevail and defeat terrorism.
You heard recently that I made strong statements about what has been going on in Benghazi in the last days. We believe and we still call for all the Libyans to understand that this process has reached the most delicate moment, the moment in which it will be possible to take the way of political unity or the way of uncertainty and chaos, further chaos, because we have a lot of chaos in Libya. Enough, I think. We call on all the Libyans to be responsible and to refrain from any action that could hinder and complicate even more the possibilities of success in this process.
We very much hope that in the coming days that the parties will be back, and ready to discuss names. It has now been confirmed by all the parties in this process, without exception, all of them are ready to discuss the names of the unity government, immediately after Eid. And we all hope that this process will be expedited, that it will be possible to finish in two or three days to vote the text and to attend a final session, a closing session of this dialogue in New York during the week of the UN General Assembly.
If it is possible, if the parties vote and endorse the agreement, then in the following days after New York it could be possible to initial the text and we will discuss with the participants, with the Libyans in general how they envisage this ceremony, but we all know very well that this city which is hosting is a candidate, a natural candidate but, of course, this is a decision the Libyans have to take. And afterwards, of course, the wish has been expressed by all the participants unanimously is that the signing should take place in Libya. This is something that also for the international community, for the United Nations, is the ideal final stage of our work and we very much hope and look forward to this signing in Libya in the coming weeks.
