Libya’s Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush spoke on the phone yesterday with her Italian counterpart Luigi Di Maio to discuss “bilateral cooperation” and “follow-up to the Stabilisation Conference”, according to the Italian foreign ministry.
Italy’s ambassador to Libya, Giuseppe Buccino, affirmed on Thursday “the support of the international community and his country’s government for the upcoming Libyan elections.”
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The United States, Britain, France, Germany and Italy threatened sanctions against individuals or groups that seek to undermine peace and political transition in Libya as the general elections in the country looms.
Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh met with Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio today on the margins of the ‘Libya Stability’ conference in Tripoli.
Italy is coordinating with Libya to support its security forces as part of a capacity-building plan from 2021 to 2025, a senior Italian military officer revealed on Tuesday.
An Italian court has sentenced a captain to a year in prison for handing migrants his ship’s crew rescued over to the Libyan coast guard in 2018. The incident had sparked heated debate in Italy.
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Embassies of France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States in Libya joined Special Envoy and Head of UNSMIL Jan Kubis in welcoming the announcement made on October 8th 2021 by the Libyan 5+5 Joint Military Commission (JMC) of the signing of a comprehensive Action Plan for the withdrawal of mercenaries, foreign fighters and foreign forces from Libyan territory.
Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio held a meeting yesterday in Rome with his Algerian counterpart Ramtane Lamamra to discuss the political transition process in Libya, according to the Italian foreign ministry.
A third batch of anti-COVID-19 vaccines arrived from Italy to Libya this afternoon, bringing the number of doses donated by Italy to the North African country to 501,600, Italian news agency ANSA reported.