Longtime lobbyist Marshall Harris, working as a partner with firm Alexandria Group International LLC, has signed a pact with Libyan political party the General National Congress and its appointed National Salvation Government to assist in representing Libya's interests in Washington.
According to Foreign Agents Registration Act documents filed in April, Alexandria Group International will work to advance the GNC and NSG’s goals of positioning the African nation as a greater priority in Washington's political agenda.
The firm’s work is expected to include contacting and scheduling meetings between administration officials and members of Congress, media representatives, think-thank experts and other U.S. policymakers and opinion-shapers, as well as increasing exposure of the GNC and NSG’s political goals by finding appropriate opportunities for op-ed articles, press releases and speeches, and aiding in messaging, as well as providing advice and analysis regarding U.S. policies and other relevant political developments.
Libya has been torn apart by warring factions of rival militia groups and increased acts of terrorism since quasi-dictator Col. Muammar Gaddafi was ousted and killed during Libya's armed, UN-backed rebellion in 2011.
The General National Congress was elected by popular vote in 2012 during Libya’s first parliamentary elections since the Gaddafi regime. In 2014, however, the GNC was defeated in a landslide election, leading to an ensuing political struggle, as that legislative authority refused to recognize Libya's new legislature, the House of Representatives, sending that elected governmental body to relocate in the eastern city Tobruk, essentially resulting in two rival Libyan governments competing for power and plunging the country further into the throes of civil war.
A newly reformed GNC in 2014 appointed the National Salvation Government to serve as Libya’s alternative government.
A series of United Nations-sponsored peace talks culminated in a December agreement for the installation of a newly established, UN-supported interim government, the Government of National Accord, to act as Libya's sole legitimate government. The GNA on March 30 arrived in Tripoli and assumed control of the prime ministerial offices the following day. Rival government the NSG on April 5 formally announced its dissolution.
GNC’s/NSG’s yearlong, $14,000-a-month pact with Alexandria Group International was signed into effect on March 30. It is slated to continue until March 29, 2017.
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