Italy launched an investigation against the Libyan Coast Guards after footage emerged last week, which appeared to show the guards firing shots on a boat full of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea.
The General Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, received at the headquarters of LNA General Command the Italian Consul, Carlo Batori, after the opening of the Italian Consulate in Benghazi, LNA Media Office announced today.
Libyan Minister of State for Migration Affairs, Ijdid Maatouq, discussed, with the Director of the General Department of Coastal Security at the Interior Ministry, the problems and obstacles they face and issues related to memoranda of understanding with the Italian and Maltese sides related to combating irregular migration.