The European Union’s Ambassador to Libya, Sabadell Jose, met on Wednesday with Labor Minister Ali Abed Reda in Tripoli where they discussed supporting efforts to create jobs in the country.
The Belgian judiciary wants the chairman of Libya’s sovereign wealth fund arrested on charges of corruption and embezzlement, Belgian magazine De Tijd reported.
The Central Bank of Libya (CBL) has published the government expenditures for 2021, which amounted to $24.5 billion (85.8 billion Libyan dinars), contradicting with the numbers published by the Government of National Unity (GNU), headed by Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh.
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Libya’s spending was 84 billion dinars ($18 billion) in 2021 and there was no fiscal deficit, the spokesperson for the transitional Government of National Unity, Mohamed Hamuda, told a news conference on Thursday.
Libya’s Economic Working Group (EWG) co-chairs emphasized the importance of a reunifying Central Bank of Libya (CBL), underscoring the necessity to maintain the unity and independence of the country’s sovereign economic and financial institutions.
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The Economic Working Group of Libya, convened a plenary meeting on 15 December to discuss the progress of reunifying the Central Bank of Libya with Governor Saddek El-Kabir and Deputy Governor Ali El-Hebri, the United Nations Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said on Friday.
Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh on Wednesday accused Belgium of seeking to seize €14 billion euros ($15 billion) in Libyan assets frozen by the United Nations since 2011, AFP reported yesterday.
The Governor of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL), Siddiq al-Kabir, has agreed with the Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Egypt, Jamal Najm, to set a framework for joint cooperation.
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