The Union for the Mediterranean pushes the international community to support a democratic Libya

Barcelona (ACN).- The Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean, Youssef Amrani, asked the international community “to mobilise in order to foster concrete measures to satisfy the Libyan people’s needs”. Amrani told the Catalan News Agency that “the Union for the Mediterranean is willing to give all its support to Libya to help the reconstruction process, when the country is preparing itself to build its own democratic model”. Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya was until the present moment the only country on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea that did not take part in the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM). The UfM is an international institution to foster cooperation between across the Mediterranean Sea. It brings together 43 countries: the 27 Member States of the European Union and all the other countries around the Mediterranean except Libya. The UfM headquarters are based-in Barcelona, where the offices of its General Secretariat are located.

UfM’s Secretary General, Youssef Amrani, is now inviting the post-Gaddafi Libya to join this international organisation linking European, Northern African and Eastern Mediterranean countries. “It is time that Libya occupies its natural place within the Mediterranean, as Libya is an important country and it can bring a positive contribution to the construction of a peaceful and stable space in the Mediterranean region”, stated Amrani.

In addition, the UfM’s Secretary General insisted that all of the organisation’s Member States have to continue pursuing the objective on which the UfM was founded: promoting peace and prosperity along Mediterranean shores.