Tue,Sep 17,2013  Editor's Pick  Libya's political transition
faces numerous challenges: UN envoy  (Xinhua)    18:59,
September 17, 2013 Email|Print|Comments       twitter    
facebook     Sina Microblog     reddit      The political
transition in Libya is facing numerous challenges, two years
after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, a UN envoy said Tuesday.  "A
combination of internal and regional dynamics continues to place
a huge strain on the political process taking place in the
country," United Nations Special Representative in Libya, Tarek
Mitri, said in his six-monthly briefing to the UN Security
Council.  In his six-page report, Mitri noted that disagreements
among political forces inside the General National Congress
(GNC) and the government had led to the polarization of
political spectrum as well as a widespread sense of skepticism
in Libya.  Mitri expressed concerns about recent escalation of
clan violence, and the murdering of security officers, judges
and journalists, adding that "progress in integrat