Forty three migrants have drowned after their boat sank off Tunisia, the Tunisian Red Crescent said on Saturday. The migrants had set off from the Libyan port of Zuwara and were attempting to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe.
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UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said proposals that do not make the Libyan elections feasible and possible to hold on 24 December will not be entertained.
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CAIRO – A meeting expected to be held Saturday between the President of the Libyan Presidency Council, Muhammed al-Manfi, the General Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, and the Speaker of the Parliament, Aqila Saleh, on the sidelines of attending opening ceremony of 3 July naval base in Egypt.
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Nicosia, Cyprus | Egypt and Cyprus stressed the importance of removing foreign forces from Libya and ending negative foreign interference in the neighboring country. This came in a meeting between diplomats from Egypt and Cyprus that dealt with relations between the two countries and regional issues.
Athens, Greece | The Speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives, chancellor Aguila Saleh, stressed the need to remove foreign forces and mercenaries from Libya, and to hold the Libyan presidential and parliamentary elections on time on December 24. This came during a meeting with the Speaker of the Greek Parliament Speaker Konstantinos Tasoulas.
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ANTALYA, Turkey – Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, called for the involvement of all concerned parties in the process of settling the Libyan crisis, including the General Command of the Libyan National Army (LNA), and representatives of the former regime of Gaddafi in the country.
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ATHENS – Speaker of the Libyan Parliament, Agila Saleh, will meet Greek Foreign Minister on Friday in Athens, according to the Greek Foreign Ministry.
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TRIPOLI – The Libyan Minister of Economy and Trade, Mohammed al-Huwaij, discussed with the Tunisian Minister of Trade and Export…
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Bob Menendez, ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued…
GENEVA – United Nations Special Envoy for Libya and international partners urge Libyan actors including members of Libyan Political Dialogue…