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.
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The Speaker of Libya’s House of Representatives, Aguila Saleh, and the Chairman of the High Council of State , Khaled Al-Mishri, will hold a brief meeting in Cairo tomorrow, Wednesday, August 31, Italian news agency Nova reports.
Body of an Egyptian migrant was recovered from capsized boat carrying 27 people off Tolmeitha town, east of Benghazi.
EgyptAir, a state-owned airline company in Egypt, received a high-level delegation from the Libyan Airlines headed by Hamed Esbaqa, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company, reports news website Aviation Source.
EgyptAir, a state-owned flag carrier of Egypt, said it would operate exceptional flights between Sharm El-Sheikh International Airport and Libya’s Mitiga International Airport in Tripoli during summer starting Tuesday, August 9, to promote tourism.
Dozens of wounded Libyans arrived in Egypt on Wednesday to receive medical treatment for injuries sustained from fuel tanker explosion in the southern town of Bent Bayya, which took place on Monday.
Deputy President of the Libyan Presidential Council (PC), Abdulla al-Lafi, discussed with the Chargé d’Affairs of the Egyptian Embassy in Libya, Tamer Mustafa, a number of issues of common interest, ways to strengthen the strategic partnership between the two countries, and the latest developments of the political process in Libya.
A telephone conversation took place Monday between the President of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed al-Menfi, and the President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, according to PC President Media Office.
Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly stressed Wednesday the importance of charting new trade routes to facilitate the transfer of goods between Egypt and Algeria other than the land route passing through Libya due to the current tensions there, according to a statement released by the Egyptian cabinet following Madbouly’s meeting with his Algerian counterpart.
The Libyan Prime Minister, Fathi Bashagha, welcomed Wednesday the Saudi-Egyptian joint statement on Libya, issued after the meeting of President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi and Crown Price Mohamed bin Salman on Tuesday in Cairo.