The Former Chief of the Tripoli-based Intelligence Service, Major General Osama al-Juwaili, confirmed that preventing the government appointed by the Parliament from entering Tripoli and taking over its duties “undermines the principle of peaceful transfer of power.”
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UK Embassy in Libya said British delegation discussed with Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush importance of Libyan-British cooperation and how UK can best engage in Libya and build on historic relationship.
Interior Ministry of of the Libyan outgoing government said it thwarted an attempt to smuggle a group of migrants across the Mediterranean sea from Sabratha west of Tripoli.
Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio stressed that Libya will always be one of the main priorities of Italian foreign policy.
UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said it is “concerned by the ongoing harassment, restrictions, and violence targeting lawyers, including the brutal 18 July beating of lawyer, Abdullah Ali Farahat in the Tripoli Court by Deterrence Apparatus for Combating Organized Crime and Terrorism’ (DACOT) guards.”
U.S. Special Envoy and Ambassador to Libya Richard Norland said Saturday’s clashes in Misrata demonstrate the dangerous prospect that the recent violence will escalate.
The Libyan Prime Minister, Fathi Bashagha, said Sunday that the great popular movement in support of the Libyan government in the East, South and West gives us hope that “the brave national spirit will triumph over the gang of corruption that thought it could buy home with “haram” money.”
UN Special Advisor on Libya, Stephanie Williams, said Friday fighting between armed groups in Tripoli “must stop now, civilians must be protected and perpetrators held accountable.”
Libyan Parliament Speaker Aqila Saleh affirmed that the Parliament did not disrupt the holding of the elections, noting that it did everything necessary for holding the elections.
UN Support Mission in Libyan UNSMIL’s Human Rights and Rule of Law team met with the Abu Salim victims’ association Wednesday “to discuss victim-centered transitional justice measures and national calls for accountability for the 1996 mass killing of more than 1,200 detainees in Abu Salim prison in Tripoli,” according to UNSMIL.