Nearly 500 migrants who tried to cross the central Mediterranean have been brought back to Libya, according to a UN spokesman, two days after charity groups lost contact with the boat carrying them, Reuters reported.
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Mikhail Bogdanov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and Special Envoy of Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Middle East and Africa, received Ibrahim Bushnaf, Libyan National Security Adviser, who is on a visit to Russia at the invitation of his Russian counterpart.
U.S. Embassy in Libya announced on Wednesday a change in the visa reciprocity standards for certain Libyan and U.S. visas.
The Libyan 6+6 Joint Committee for Preparation of Electoral Laws stressed Tuesday the need to form a unified government that paves the way for holding elections throughout the country.
The Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU) said Tuesday that Libya’s ambassador to Austria and permanent representative to international organizations, Osama Abdel-Hadi, discussed with an Austrian delegation, headed by the Director General of Vienna International Airport, the possibility of opening airspace, the return of air traffic between the two countries, and the operation of 3 flights per week.
Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh will visit Rome in June, announced the premier himself yesterday.
Prime Minister of former Tripoli-based “Government of National Salvation”, Khalifa al-Ghwell, made discreet visit to Paris on 14 May, preparing to return to front lines of the Libyan political scene & play leading role against the current Prime Minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh.
The legality of the arrest warrant issued against the head of Libya’s sovereign wealth fund, Ali Mahmoud Hassan, is to be ruled upon on 24 May by the Brussels court of appeal. He has hired public relations specialists to help him win the media battle.
Libya’s Presidential Council signed with the Netherlands, Switzerland and the U.N. Mission in Libya a declaration of intent to “enhance cooperation to integrate human rights in the political and national reconciliation process,” revealed Dutch Ambassador Dolf Hogewoning on Monday.
Minister of Housing of the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity, Abu Bakr Al-Ghawi hmet on Sunday with his Syrian counterpart Suhail Abdul Latif to discuss “means of cooperation in the fields of housing and opening the door for work and partnership between the Libyan and Syrian sides,” according to a statement by the Libyan ministry of housing.