The Tripoli-based Defense Ministry, led by outgoing prime minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, denied on Sunday reports which claimed the country’s border points with Tunisia have been modified.
Director of the Office of the Defense Minister of Defense, Jibril Muftah Al-Shtiwi, met yesterday Chairman of the Land and Maritime Border Committee, Muhammad Al-Hashimi Al-Hariri, to discuss the alleged reports, according to a statement by the ministry.
Both officials affirmed thatthe borders between the two countries are “defined by clear coordinates and approved on the basis of an agreement dating back to 1910”.
The ministry’s statement came in response to the Security Directorate of Sahel Al-Gharbi, which had reported a “partial diversion” of the border marker in the Saniyat Al-Ahmar area.
According to the directorate, this area, which is a Libyan territory, was annexed to the Tunisia by placing border marker at a distance of about 150 meters to the east and about 6 km to the south.