Egyptian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that its withdrawal from the Arab League session came after the Foreign Minister of the Libyan outgoing government, Najla Mangoush, assumed the presidency of the session.
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Outgoing Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dabaiba is obstructing granting entry visa to the German diplomat Christian Bock, the Director-General of Political Affairs and the German Special Envoy to Libya, private sources told the Libya Update.
The Egyptian Foreign Minister, Sameh Shoukry, withdrew Tuesday from the 158th session of the Council of Arab League at the level of foreign ministers, rejecting the fact that the Foreign Minister of the Libyan outgoing government, Najla Mangoush, assumed the presidency of the session.
The Libyan Government led by Fathi Bashagha has issued a statement rejecting presidency of the 158th session of the Arab League Council at the ministerial level by the outgoing government of Abdul Hamid Dabaiba.
An armed group at Tripoli’s Mitiga Airport on Monday forcibly prevented 30 members of the House of Representatives (HoR) from leaving the capital to Benghazi to attend a session of the House.
Outgoing Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dabaiba visited al-Sadiq al-Ghariani, the former Mufti of Libya, at home in Tajoura, east of Tripoli, a government source told The Libya Update.
The UK has congratulated the Senegalese diplomat Abdoulaye Bathily on his appointment as Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Libya, according to the British Embassy in Libya.
Libyan outgoing Prime Minister, Abdel Hamid Dabaiba, signed with his Maltese counterpart, Robert Abela, two cooperation agreements between the two countries.
The Libyan outgoing Prime Minister, Abdul Hamid Dabaiba, met Thursday Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, and Head of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization, Hakan Fidan.
Following recent armed clashes in Tripoli that resulted in civilian casualties and widespread damage to civilian facilities, UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) underlined “the importance of avoiding any actions or statements that undermine the fragile calm.”