UN envoy to Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, met on Monday with the General Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, in Benghazi, according to Bathily.
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The new European Ambassador to Libya will be announced at the appropriate time after a final decision has been made, said the spokesman of the European External Action Service (EEAS), Peter Stano, during the daily press conference in Brussels today.
The Government of National Unity, led by Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, has approved appointing Italy’s Special Envoy to Libya Nicola Orlando as the European Union’s ambassador to the country, Italian news agency Nova reports.
Libya’s High Council of State has called on the Attorney-General Al-Siddiq Al-Sour to publicly release the results of his office’s investigation into the meeting between Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush and her Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel’s announcement of Eli Cohen’s meeting with his Libyan counterpart Najla Mangoush, which sparked rioting in Tripoli and the removal of Mangoush from her post, was “not helpful” and “an exception to the rule” of covert contacts, and the Israeli government would ensure it wouldn’t be repeated.
Paris gave the order to shoot down an Italian passenger jet in a bid to kill Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 1980, former Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato claimed in an interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica which was published on Saturday.
Libya’s Attorney-General said on Saturday he would establish a fact-finding mission to investigate a meeting last month between the country’s foreign minister Najla Mangoush and her Israeli counterpart.
The Renewable Energy Authority of Libya (REAoL) discussed, at a meeting with the Dutch Embassy at its Tripoli headquarters yesterday, renewables and training.
Speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR), Aguila Saleh, discussed with Special Representative of UN Secretary-General, Abdoulaye Bathily, developments of the political situation in Libya.
Libya’s interim government deployed military and security forces in downtown Tripoli on Friday to contain anti-Israel protests. Interior Ministry units…