UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has taken note of the appointment by Libya’s east-based parliament of a new prime minister and is following the situation in the North African country closely, his spokesman said Friday. The statement by the UN spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, seems to reflect a more neutral position than the UN’s initial support for the current interim prime minister based in the capital, Tripoli, in western Libya. The east-based lawmakers on Thursday appointed former Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha to replace Abdul Hamid Dbeibah as head of a new interim government, a devel…