The Coast Guard of Italy has agreed on Friday to deploy a liaison officer to the command of the European Union’s Operation IRINI, which is in charge of overseeing the implementation of the arms embargo in Libya.
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Italy and France endorse the formation of a unified Libyan government as a “precondition for successful elections”, revealed Prime Minister-designate Fathi Bashagha on Thursday.
The Italian parliament voted on Wednesday to authorize the extension of “assistance to the Libyan institutions responsible for controlling maritime borders”.
Italian Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio, stressed the need to focus appointing a new UN Special Envoy for Libya, which he deemed to be a “decisive step”.
Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio stressed that Libya will always be one of the main priorities of Italian foreign policy.
“All actions that could lead to instability and violence should be avoided,” Italy’s Special Envoy to Libya, Nicola Orlando, told Prime Minister-designate Fathi Bashagha during a”constructive call” on Monday evening.
Italian Ambassador to Libya, Giuseppe Buccino, had a word of warning to Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh during a meeting in Tripoli as he alerted that the status quo in Libya is “untenable”.
Almost 700 migrants, including five dead bodies, were rescued on Saturday off the southern coast of Italy, a coastguard statement said on Sunday, as flows of migrants crossing the Mediterranean increase during favourable sea conditions.
Spokesman for the government of Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, Mohammed Hamouda, is expected in Rome today for a press conference dedicated to the stability of the Mediterranean at the Nassirya Hall of the Senate, according to Italian news agency Nova.
A tanker carrying one million barrels of crude oil to Italy docked Wednesday at the Sidra oil port in Libya, according to the National Oil Corporation (NOC)