Representatives of the army and safety establishments within the East and West, together with two army and police feminine officers, chargeable for border safety, counterterrorism and addressing irregular migration agreed on Wednesday 26 February to type a specialised examine heart tasked with conducting specialised research on border safety areas.
Members of the Joint Technical Coordination Staff (JTCT) for Border Safety participated in a two-day coordination assembly, facilitated by UNSMIL in Tunis. The JTCT developed a proposal of a research heart which gives an evaluation of the dangers round border safety, that gives sensible options which may be utilized on the bottom, recognized the duties and duties of the centre and its organizational construction.
The research centre will contribute considerably to strengthening border safety and combating terrorism, and addressing irregular immigration, mentioned one of many members, including that it could assist develop implementable options to frame safety points and help strengthening Libyan nationwide safety.
On the request of the JTCT, UNSMIL facilitated a discipline go to to one of many Tunisian land border facilities close to the Libyan-Tunisian border to reinforce expertise sharing and consciousness of regional cross-border safety challenges.
“The institution of the research heart comes as a part of the joint coordination mechanism accepted by the JTCT for Border Safety at Benghazi assembly on 17 and 18 December 2024,” mentioned Ali Kilkal, from UNSMIL’s Safety Establishments Service.
Kilkal careworn that the subsequent step could be to bodily set up the border safety joint facilities and to start out equipping them, to allow coordination, communication and data trade on border safety.
They determined to reconvene in April in southern Libya to debate the regional coordination mechanism.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of United Nations Help Mission in Libya (UNSMIL).
