New York, NY (BBN)- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will travel to Egypt next week to chair a meeting of regional organizations convened in an effort to ensure continued coordination of the international response to the crisis in Libya, his spokesperson said.
The meeting on Thursday will be held at the headquarters of the League of Arab States in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
Senior officials expected to attend include the League’s Secretary-General, Amre Moussa; the Chairman of the Commission of the African Union, Jean Ping; the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu; and Catherine Ashton, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.
“The objective of the meeting will be to exchange views and enhance coordination among the participating organizations in addressing the current crisis in Libya,” said UN spokesperson Martin Nesirky on Friday.
Next Tuesday, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs B. Lynn Pascoe and the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Libya, Abdel Elah al-Khatib, will represent the UN at the first meeting of the Libya Contact Group in Doha, Qatar.
The UN delegation will also include representatives of the UN Development Program (UNDP) and UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The Contact Group was established at the London Conference on Libya on 31 March.
 
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