The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday said it started distribution of winter items to displaced Libyan families and returnees in Tawergha, some 240 km east of the capital Tripoli.
Libyan Agency for Combating Illegal Migration – Shahat Branch confirmed that it deported 16 Egyptian migrants who had entered Libyan territory without official documents.
UN Adviser on Libya, Stephanie Williams, has said the political process that produced the agreement for the interim Government of National Unity (GNU), and most importantly the roadmap towards national elections, extends up until June of this year.
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Libya’s First Deputy Prime Minister Hussein al-Qatrani said the Turkish ambassador to Libya will visit Benghazi next week to discuss reopening the Turkish consulate in the Eastern city.
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UN Adviser on Libya, Stephanie Williams, said she met today in Tunis with the Charge d’Affaires of the Russian Embassy to Libya, where they discussed recent developments in the North African country, emphasizing the need for continuing a fully inclusive political process and preserving the electoral momentum.
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Libya’s High Council of State and House of Representatives are making “intensified efforts” to “agree promptly on a roadmap that will give the public confidence that elections will take place as soon as possible,” revealed Richard Norland, the U.S. Special Envoy and Ambassador to Libya.
The resumption of the political process in Libya was the focus of a meeting today in Tunis between the Tunisian Foreign Minister, Othman Jerandi, and the U.N. Secretary General’s Special Advisor for Libya, Stephanie Williams.
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said more than 600 migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers were detained in front of the former Community Day Center in Tripoli early this morning.
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