United Nations-facilitated talks on Libya have wrapped up with a new interim government for the war-ravaged country, with Abdulhamid Dbeibeh selected as prime minister and Mohammed al-Menfi as head of a three-member presidential council. 

“I am pleased to witness this historic moment,” UN acting Libya envoy Stephanie Williams told the delegates on Friday. “The decision that you have taken today will grow with the passage of time in the collective memory of the Libyan people.”

The selection of an interim government is the latest attempt at unifying the North African country after six years of civil war and an uprising that overthrew and killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi. An October cease-fire brokered by the UN Mission in Libya paused the fighting between the internationally recognized Government of National Accord and Khalifa Hifter’s Libyan National Army. Both sides called for nationwide presidential and parliamentary elections. 

Dozens of delegates from across Libya gathered this week near Geneva, Switzerland, to hear presentations from candidates running for interim prime minister and a three-member presidential council. As part of the UN-supported process, known as the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum, candidates pledged to hold general elections Dec. 24 and to appoint women to 30% of all senior government positions.