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The Libyan outgoing Prime Minister, Abdel Hamid Dbeiebh, received Wednesday afternoon the US envoy to Libya, Ambassador Richard Norland, and Chargé d’Affairs at the US Embassy, Leslie Ordman, to discuss national and international efforts to hold elections in Libya this year, according to Dbeibeh’s government.

UN envoy to Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, stressed the importance of the role played by the Libyan Presidential Council (LPC) in creating a state of consensus between the local parties as a neutral body that stands at the same distance from all parties, according to LPC Media Office.

Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Libya, Georgette Gagnon, held talks with the office staff of International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Benghazi to discuss “IOM’s vital life-saving protection and psychosocial support to vulnerable migrants in host communities,” according to Gagnon.

The Chairperson of the Indian National Commission for Minorities (NCM), Iqbal Singh Lalpura, informed media on Sunday that the commission has rescued 12 Indians stranded in Libya, who were taken to the country by one of the agents in a fake job racket, The Hindu newspaper reported.

The President of the Libyan Presidential Council (LPC), Mohamed al-Menfi, participated Sunday in the opening of the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5), held in Doha, in the presence of a number of heads of state and government, according to LPC Media Office.

Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres have discussed the bilateral cooperation, Palestine, Libya, Afghanistan and the issue of Iran’s nuclear development on the sidelines of the 5th United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, the Qatari Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.