The African Union , the EuropeanUnion and the United Nations on Thursdayreiterated their commitment to jointly addressing challenges facing stranded migrantsand refugees in Libya. This is according to a jointstatement by the Tripartite Task Force on the Situation of Stranded Migrant andRefugees in Libya at General Debate of 74th session of the UN General Assemblyin New York. The task force said that it cametogether to discuss ways of providing support in Libya and possibilities forfurther joint work. The Chairperson of the AUCommission, 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 waysof consolidating cooperation with the Libyan authorities in efforts to scale upassisted voluntary returns and evacuations from Libya. And also to dismantle the existingsystem of arbitrary arrests and detention of migrants and create alternativesto detention, as well as ensure the rights of migrants and refugees are equallyprotected.