U.S. Ambassador and Special Envoy to Libya Richard Norland said he received a call from the Libyan Presidential Council’s President Mohamed al-Menfi Saturday evening and “used the opportunity to convey deep U.S. concern about the political, economic and financial stalemate that resulted in scenes of turmoil such as those we saw Friday across the country.”
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Fury at Libya’s feuding leaders boiled over on Friday as protesters stormed the parliament building in the eastern city of Tobruk and staged the biggest demonstration for years in the capital Tripoli, in the west.
U.S. Special Envoy and Ambassador to Libya Richard Norland was in Tripoli June 28-29 for meetings with a focus on “U.S. support for moving beyond the transitional phase in Libya to an elected, unified government,” according to US Embassy in Libya.
Libyan rescue services have recovered the bodies of 20 people in the desert near the border with Chad.
Informed sources have reported that the talks currently taking place in Geneva between the presidency of the Libyan House of Representatives and the State Council are stumbling and could fail due to the two parties’ disagreement over the issue of the candidacy of Libya dual nationals in any upcoming elections.
A Maltese court has ordered Bank of Valletta (BOV) to return over 90 million euro linked to the son of the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Libyan Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha said he contacted with Parliament Speaker Aqila Saleh, after the latter’s arrival in Geneva to meet with High State Council Chairman Khaled al-Mishri, where the Prime Minister confirmed his government’s support for the meeting.
Libyan outgoing Prime Minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, discussed with the British ambassador the role of the United Kingdom in supporting stability and elections in Libya, according to Dbeibeh’s media office.
British Embassy in Libya called Saturday on Libyan authorities to hold accountable those responsible about political activist Salwa Bougaighis’ murder 8 years ago in Benghazi.
France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States has welcomed “the progress made in the talks between the Joint Committee of the House of Representatives (HoR) and High Council of State (HCS) in Cairo facilitated by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL),” according to the US Department of State.