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Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio denied on Wednesday claims that his government is providing funds for the Libyan Coast Guard, after several NGOs called for Italian funding to be halted due to human rights violations committed by Libya’s guard.

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Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, told the Security Council on Thursday that the presence of foreign forces and mercenaries poses a threat to the peace process in the country, calling on the international community to aid his government in its effort to unify the country’s military institution.

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French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield and her Russian counterpart Dmitry Polyanskiy stressed upon the necessity to hold the Libyan general elections on December 24 during a Security Council meeting on Libya today.

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Ján Kubiš, the U.N. Special Envoy to Libya, told the Security Council that Libya would “slip back into violence and chaos” if the presidential and parliamentary elections in December were to be disrupted.

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Libyan journalist Mahmud El-Forjani said the absence of Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush from the Security Council session held today to discuss the situation in Libya “is a fault committed by the National Unity Government headed by Abdel Hamid Dabaiba.”

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A ministerial-level meeting at the U.N. Security Council commenced on Thursday to discuss the situation in Libya.

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The General Command of the Libyan National Army (LNA) called Wednesday on the UN Security Council to develop a vision that imposes integrity of the Libyan elections scheduled to be held on December 24.
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A new committee of the House of Representatives, which is tasked with drafting electoral legislations, will hold its first meeting with the High National Election Commission (HNEC) and the U.N. Mission in Libya following Eid Al-Adha holiday (from July 19th to 23rd), committee member Muftah Quaider said on Wednesday.

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Libya’s Presidential Council has directed the government to “harness all capabilities” to support Tunisia after the country was hit by a new wave of Coronavirus outbreak.

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Libya recorded on Wednesday 2,604 new cases of COVID-19, while three people were recorded to have died and 415 others recovered, according to a statement by the National Central for Disease Control (NCDC).

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