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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.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Libya is unable to restore its state, pointing out that the situation there creates many problems in Africa’s coastal and Sahara regions.

The European naval operation IRINI has announced that it monitored 25 suspect flights out of 1,131 flights to Libya during February, explaining that it carried out 9 visits on ships with Master’s consent out of 434, and investigated 271 merchant vessels via radio calls out of 8,647, according to the European External Action Service (EEAS).