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Egypt to reopen embassy in Tripoli and Benghazi, ambassador says
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Egypt to reopen embassy in Tripoli and Benghazi, ambassador says

The Libyan Foreign Minister, Najla Mangoush, met on Monday with the Egyptian Ambassador to Libya, Tamer Mustafa, at the ministry’s headquarters in Tripoli, where the ambassador revealed that the Egyptian embassy and consulate headquarters in Tripoli will soon be equipped and reopened to provide their services, referring to the arrangement for equipping the consulate building in Benghazi as well.

The meeting also touched on the common prospects for cooperation between the two countries, and ways to develop them to include all fields, foremost of which are health, judicial and economic cooperation, in addition to regulating the presence of Egyptian workers in Libya, and legalizing their status through electronic linking of employment-related systems, according to the Ministry.

Mangoush expressed her gratitude to Egypt, for its solidarity with the Libyan people in addressing the Coronavirus pandemic, in reference to the quantities of oxygen that Egypt recently sent to Libya, the Libyan Foreign Ministry said in a statement on its official Facebook page.