Saddek Elkaber, the Governor of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL), discussed on Friday enhancing financial transparency and promoting economic stability with Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. State Department, Joshua Harris, and Chargé d’Affaires of the US Embassy in Libya, Leslie Ordeman.
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Turkey’s naval forces have conducted a joint military exercise with their Libyan counterparts off the coast of the North African country, in the central Mediterranean.
Libya’s oil revenues, from the beginning of 2022 until now, have reached 77.17 billion Libyan dinars (15.2 billion U.S. dollars), announced the Tripoli-based Ministry of Finance.
The U.N. Security Council renewed for another year its authorization for Member States to inspect vessels on the high seas off Libya’s coast that they have reasonable grounds to suspect are being used for migrant smuggling and human trafficking from that country, and to seize those vessels that are confirmed as being used for those purposes.
The Tripoli-based prime minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, held talks today in Tripoli with one of British Defense Ministry’s top advisors Joey Martin Sampson.
U.S. Ambassador and Special Envoy to Libya Richard Norland and Libyan Audit Bureau (LAB) President Khalid Shakshak launched a USAID supported INTOSAI training program for 45 LAB auditors, “praising these dedicated public servants for their work fighting corruption and increasing transparency,” according to US Embassy in Libya.
Libyan outgoing Prime Minister, Abdel Hamid Dabaiba, discussed in Tripoli with South Korean Ambassador Lee Sang-soo, possibility of the return of Korean companies to Libya and the resumption of their work, especially in the field of electricity.
The newly appointed U.N. Envoy to Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, officially assumed his duties on 25 September. However, he will conduct a series of meetings with senior UN officials and representatives of Member States in New York before his arrival in Libya in in early October.
Libyan authorities and militias present in the country have been behind the killing of more than 580 civilians between January 2020 and March 2022, the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) has denounced, noting that the figure includes those executed in prisons and people tortured to death.
President of the Libyan Presidential Council (PC), Mohamed al-Menfi, arrived Wednesday in Tripoli coming from New York, after his participation in the United Nations General Assembly’s 77th session.