The United States should not stop United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres from naming a new U.N. Libya envoy to replace Ghassan Salame who quit nearly five months ago, Germany's U.N. Ambassador Christoph Heusgen said on Thursday.
FILE PHOTO: German Ambassador to the United Nations Christoph Heusgen speaks to the media after closed-doors Security Council meetings on Iran at the U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., June 24, 2019. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
Salame, who headed the U.N. political mission and was charged with trying to mediate peace, quit because of stress after his last effort at peacemaking in the war-torn, oil producing country failed. “There have been questions raised by our U.S. partners with regard to the structure of UNSMIL. We believe that, yes, you can discuss that, but ... the U.S. shouldn’t stop the Secretary-General nominating a successor to Ghassan Salame,” Heusgen told reporters.
Guterres has suggested former Ghana foreign minister and current U.N. envoy to the African Union, Hanna Tetteh, replace Salame and Washington has said it can support her nomination after Guterres appoints a special mediator, diplomats said.
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