Libya intends to activate strategic and economic cooperation with China, in the light of the North African country’s possible accession to the New Silk Road or Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), said Deputy Chairman of Libya’s Presidential Council Moussa Koni, on Sunday.
Koni made his remarks during a meeting with the Chinese President, Xi Jinping, on the sidelines of the special session on Afro-Chinese cooperation in the framework of the BRICS summit held in South Africa.
According to Koni, the return of Chinese companies to Libya would send “a strong and reassuring message to all international businesses on achieving stability in Libya”.
The deputy chairman then stressed to the Chinese president that reconstruction projects in Libya “need Chinese expertise” and that the Chinese model of economic progress “should be emulated”.