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Italy and Russia share the “urgent need” to continue supporting the internal Libyan negotiations, because joint cooperation between the two countries on Libya is “pivotal”, the Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio told reporters on Friday during a press conference with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Rome.

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Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the General Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), discussed with Ján Kubiš, the U.N. Envoy to Libya, the latest developments in the country during a Saturday meeting at the LNA’s headquarters in the eastern town of Rajma, according to a brief statement by the LNA’s General Command.

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At least 130 migrants were rescued and brought back to Tripoli on Friday evening after their two boats capsized at sea, the U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR) announced on early Saturday morning.

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Member of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF), Amal Bugaigis, said she “hopes that the 5+5 Joint Military Committee (JMC) will expand and become a unified military and security council, moving the country towards peace.”
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Thirty one members of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) called on the UN Special Envoy to Libya, Jan Kubis, to hold an emergency session of the forum to address the “grave breaches” that impede the implementation of LPDF road map.
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Aqila Saleh, Speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR), said the Government of National Unity (GNU) can freeze its agreements with Turkey because the legislative authority has not approved them.
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The Government of National Unity (GNU) acts as a party that had won power, not as a government of national unity, said member of the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR), Abdussalam Nassiya.
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Abdel Hamid Dbeibeh, Head of the Government of National Unity (GNU), said that 10,000 terrorists came to Libya from abroad, including some neighboring countries.
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The United States has joined the United Nations Support Mission (UNSMIL) in commending the creation of a new Libyan joint force to secure the Great Man-Made River (MMR).
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Tunisian Defense Ministry announced the capture of 52 Syrians, into two groups, trying to cross the border from Libya to Tunisia.
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