the U.s. officials would like to see the former Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt becomes the peacekeeper in the conflict in Libya.
It tells the unnamed UN diplomats, according to news agency Reuters.
already the UN secretary-general, António Guterres, proposed former foreign minister of Ghana and current envoy to The African Union, Hanna Tetteh to stand at the head of the UN mission in Libya.
the UNITED states has said that it supports Tettehs appointment, which is confirmed by David Schenker, who is the UNITED states’deputy minister for affairs in the near east.
Schenker adds that it is a big task to lead a political mission for the UN, and that peacemaking is a pretty big task for one person’.
– We are discussing with our colleagues, what is the best way forward, he says.
the Unnamed diplomats say according to Reuters, before the UNITED states accepts Hanna Tettehs appointment, want the americans to António Guterres to appoint a special envoy with a focus on peace mediation in Libya.
For this post pointing US in the Helle Thorning-Schmidt, telling the diplomats.
the UN security council should be the green light for such appointments, but according to diplomats, several of the 15 members, who do not support the us proposal to split the role.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt herself has not yet commented on the information.
Until three months ago, it was Lebanon’s former minister of culture Ghassan Salamé, who, as the UN envoy in Libya had the task of fredsmægle in the north african country.
But Salamé resigned from the post 2. march. It happened, a few days after his latest attempt to make peace failed, writes Reuters.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt was the social democratic prime minister of Denmark from 2011 to 2015, after which she was director of the Red Child international key organization, Save The Children in London, from 2016 to 2019.
In the beginning of may in the year she got the space at the top of Facebook’s new board of supervisors ‘Oversight Board’ – in English the ‘Independent Supervisory body’ – which assesses the content on the social media.
Before then – at the beginning of February – drew Helle Thorning-Schmidt from a top jobs as a co-chair of a UN panel, which was formed to crack down on tax evasion.
It came to pass, because she was afraid that the stories in Ekstra Bladet on Thorning’s alleged connection to tax havens would overshadow the work.
