The African Union , the European Union and the United Nations on Thursday reiterated their commitment to jointly addressing challenges facing stranded migrants and refugees in Libya.
This is according to a joint statement by the Tripartite Task Force on the Situation of Stranded Migrant and Refugees in Libya at General Debate of 74th session of the UN General Assembly in New York.
The task force said that it came together to discuss ways of providing support in Libya and possibilities for further joint work.
The Chairperson of the AU Commission, Moussa Faki, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) Director-General, Antonio Vitorino, are among those who deliberated on the issue in the meeting.
The task force deliberated on ways of consolidating cooperation with the Libyan authorities in efforts to scale up assisted voluntary returns and evacuations from Libya.
And also to dismantle the existing system of arbitrary arrests and detention of migrants and create alternatives to detention, as well as ensure the rights of migrants and refugees are equally protected.
