All this will hopefully happen with a deadline we have, which is the 20th of October. Nobody would like to see any political vacuum in Libya. We want to see a political and legal clear framework. The country needs it. The international community needs it to operate in Libya, to have partners with a very clear legal status. It has been extremely difficult for the international community to deal with Libya in the last year, and actually (it is) really a miracle that some operations are still taking place given the legal and political chaos.
But the good news for the country and the good news for the international community is that today there is a clear possibility for the chaos to finish, with a clear definition of who is the government, to overcome this division, in regions, institutions, parliaments, governments, with the unity that will allow them to return to what Libya always was, a rich country a healthy country, a country that can be - and you know that I like always to insist on this idea that can be a very good example, a very good reference for those countries that are suffering in the regions, countries like Iraq, Syria, Yemen that are also very hopeful that the Libyans will become their good example, a political solution through dialogue and not through violence and war.
___
Question: Is this the final (inaudible), is the government annex included, includes names?
Leon: The content of the political agreement is final. We will not have any further negotiations, the parties are now expected to approve it or not to approve i. Of course, this is their decision, and not come back with more remarks or more elements to be negotiated. But Annex No. 1 of this text is the five names of the Presidential Council of the government and this still has to be decided when the parties will be back immediately after Eid, so this annex No. 1 still has to be completed and this is the moment in which there will be a comprehensive package.
This is not an element of discussing formulas or articles or legal elements in the agreement. It is just a matter of agreeing on list of five names and adding it as Annex No. 1 to the final package in terms of endorsement because the endorsement will only come when all these elements will be completed.
___
Question: We understand now it is a take it or leave offer, can we say it is sending a warning to both sides in Libya?
Leon: It is not a warning. We have to put it in a positive way. The Libyans have been the ones who have created this opportunity and it is an opportunity for the country. The question, the warning has to come from those who oppose this possibility solution that we have elaborated all together because they are the ones who have to say what is the alternative. I don’t see many alternative in Libya, frankly. I have heard a lot of critics about this work and about this agreement and we know very well that there are many people who do not like what we are doing and who find here and there elements that they would prefer to be different. But what is the alternative? And this is the real warning. This is what all Libyans should now discuss, and we hope that there will be a wide debate. We hope that there will be a serious and mature debate on what are the alternatives.
We cannot continue to negotiate forever, as we know after the 20th of October the little elements we have, certain legitimacy, legality, and based on the institutions, and here I want to talk about institutions in a wide sense. In this process we have had different institutions, considering different sources of the legitimacy to be here negotiating they have accepted each other and decided to work together to reach this conclusion. I don’t see any alternatives. When people talk about some ideas as solutions in Libya, and we have heard in recent weeks some of them, I am very worried because these ideas will not get any recognition, will not get any support from the international community, will just multiply the chaos that Libya is facing. So in my opinion, I am not saying this because the United Nations has been facilitating these Libyan negotiations; I am saying this because, frankly, after one year following Libya very closely I cannot see any alternative.
