The Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, Youssef Al-Aqouri, and Moscow’s ambassador to Libya, Aydar Aganin, held discussions in Benghazi on ways to strengthen educational cooperation and offer scholarships for Libyan students in Russia, in addition to reactivating joint agreements in the field of civil safety and disaster response.
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The UN Security Council’s unanimous decision yesterday to extend the mandate of the UN Mission in Libya “demonstrates the international community’s strong support for [UN Envoy] Bathily’s efforts to further an inclusive political process leading to elections and a unified government in Libya,” said US Ambassador Richard Norland.
The Libyan Prime Minister, Osama Hammad, held on Monday an expanded security meeting to review the progress of the work of all security agencies, and all the capabilities they need in order to conduct their work to the fullest extent, in addition to joint coordination between them to secure the international conference for the reconstruction of Derna and the other flood-affected towns.
The governor of the Central Bank of Libya, Al Saddiq al Kabir, met with the deputy foreign minister of Turkey, Ahmet Yildiz, and the Turkish ambassador, Kanan Yilmaz, for talks on potential involvement of Turkish companies in the reconstruction of Derna which was destroyed by Storm Daniel on September 10.
Authorities in Libya exhumed on Sunday the skeletal remains of 50 flood victims in Derna to collect DNA samples, hoping to identify missing people among those buried.
Sabha Airport will operate flights to Cairo and Tunis starting from November, the Government of National Unity announced on Sunday.
The Security Council is expected to vote today on renewing the mandate of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), which expires on 31 October.
Six people were killed and 12 wounded when armed groups clashed on Sunday in the western Libyan city of Gharyan, several sources said.
Counterterrorism and political developments in Libya were the focus of talks yesterday between General Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Khalifa Haftar, and the French President’s Special Envoy to Libya, Paul Soler.
Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh met on Saturday with France’s Ambassador to Libya Mostafa Mihraje and the French President’s Special Envoy to Libya, Paul Soler.