The session was chaired by Amira El Fadil (AU Commissioner for Social Affairs), with the participation of Christian Leffler (Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service), Othman Belbeisi (Chief of Mission of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Libya), and Cosmas Chanda (Representative of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to the African Union).

The Task Force was launched in November 2017 at the 5^th AU-EU Summit, in an effort to alleviate the struggle of migrants stranded in Libya. It has since achieved its target of voluntarily assisting 15,000 migrants to return to their countries of origin. The briefing session highlighted the need to ensure their full reintegration, and for detention centres to be closed down. The Task Force can also serve as an inspiration for successful trilateral AU-EU-UN cooperation in other contexts.