Libya’s Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush held talks in Tripoli today with the Chargé d’Affairs of the U.S. Embassy in Libya, Leslie Ordeman, focusing on the long-delayed presidential and parliamentary elections in the country.
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The Libyan 5+5 Joint Military Committee (JMC) met Thursday in Sirte in the presence of UN Special Envoy, Abdoulaye Bathily.
On the occasion of the disarmament week, UN Special Envoy to Libya reiterated “the UN’s commitment to providing technical support to Libya’s 5+5 Joint Military Committee (JMC) to accelerate the implementation of the ceasefire agreement, including placing the regularization of arms under the sole control of the state.”
A meeting of the 5+5 Libyan Joint Military Committee with U.N. Special Envoy to Libya Abdoulaye Bathily will be held tomorrow at the Ouagadougou Palace in Sirte, Italian news agency Nova reports, citing unnamed Libyan sources.
Sea-Watch, a German non-governmental organization that operates in the Mediterranean Sea to conduct rescue operations for migrants, released on Wednesday footage in which the Libyan Coast Guard appears to threaten to shoot down the NGO’s plane “by some missiles”.
The Chargé d’Affairs of the U.S. Embassy in Libya, Leslie Ordeman, held talks in Tripoli today on “transparency and financial accountability” with several cabinet members of the Tripoli-based government led by Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh.
Mostafa Mihraje, France’s new ambassador to Libya, arrived in Tripoli to officially assume his role.
The U.N. Special Envoy to Libya Abdoulaye Bathily was briefed by the country’s Chairman of High Council of State, Khaled Al-Mishri, on the outcomes of the latter’s meeting Speaker of the House of Representative, Aguila Saleh, which took place in Morocco few days ago.
A Turkish military aircraft conducted surveillance mission over the central Mediterranean today in the afternoon, reports Itamilradar website, which is specialized in monitoring military aircrafts.
The Libyan outgoing Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, in his capacity as Defence Minister, signed two military cooperation agreements with Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar.