Tunis: Members of a Libyan committee met in Tunisia on Sunday to discuss implementing an agreement signed in the capital Tripoli last month towards holding national elections. The meeting in Tunis, with four representatives each from the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity and from the eastern-based General Command, was chaired by UN Special Representative for Libya Hanna Tetteh, according to a statement by the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL).

According to Anadolu Agency, committee members reaffirmed their commitment to implementing the agreement and moving toward national elections that meet Libyans' aspirations for stability and prosperity under unified and legitimate institutions, the statement said. The committee, called the 4+4 committee, on Aug. 30 signed an agreement at the UN mission headquarters in Tripoli providing for elections to be held within 24 months.

At Sunday's meeting, members reviewed public positions on the agreement, including support expressed by the UN Security Council and Libya's Benghazi-based House of Representatives. They also agreed to continue consultations with other Libyan parties in an effort to broaden support for the deal. The UNSMIL said Sunday's session was the ninth meeting of the smaller dialogue committee and the first since the parties signed an agreement to reconstitute the national elections commission and amend electoral laws.

A follow-up meeting is scheduled for the first week of October, the mission said. The committee has held UN-sponsored talks since April in an effort to break Libya's political deadlock and advance implementation of the UN roadmap, particularly on elections and unifying the executive authority. During a formal session last Monday, Libya's House of Representatives unanimously approved the agreement towards holding elections. The High Council of State has yet to formally announce its position, although its head, Mohammed Takala, has rejected the agreement.

The committee's talks followed Tetteh's announcement during an April 22 briefing to the UN Security Council that she had been engaging with a smaller group of Libyan actors. In August 2025, Tetteh unveiled a roadmap based on three pillars: establishing a technically sound and politically acceptable electoral framework for presidential and parliamentary elections, unifying state institutions through a new unified government, and launching a structured dialogue involving a broad range of Libyan groups.

The UN-led process is intended to move Libya toward elections and resolve the political division between the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity led by Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, which controls western Libya, and the government of Osama Hammad, appointed by the House of Representatives in early 2022 and based in Benghazi, which administers the east and much of the south. Libyans hope long-delayed elections will end years of political and armed conflict and bring to a close the series of transitional periods that followed the 2011 overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi's regime.