The U.N. Secretary General’s Special Adviser for Libya, Stephanie Williams, will remain in office for at least another month, Italian news agency Nova reports.
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The leaders of Libya’s House of Representatives and High Council of State have reached today “unprecedented consensus” after holding two-day talks in Geneva under facilitation from the United Nations, announced Stephanie Williams, a special advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General.
Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly stressed Wednesday the importance of charting new trade routes to facilitate the transfer of goods between Egypt and Algeria other than the land route passing through Libya due to the current tensions there, according to a statement released by the Egyptian cabinet following Madbouly’s meeting with his Algerian counterpart.
U.S. Special Envoy and Ambassador to Libya Richard Norland was in Tripoli June 28-29 for meetings with a focus on “U.S. support for moving beyond the transitional phase in Libya to an elected, unified government,” according to US Embassy in Libya.
Libyan rescue services have recovered the bodies of 20 people in the desert near the border with Chad.
The Nigerian National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Tuesday received 131 stranded Nigerians from Libya at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.
A Maltese court has ordered Bank of Valletta (BOV) to return over 90 million euro linked to the son of the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Libyan Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha said he contacted with Parliament Speaker Aqila Saleh, after the latter’s arrival in Geneva to meet with High State Council Chairman Khaled al-Mishri, where the Prime Minister confirmed his government’s support for the meeting.
U.N. Advisor to Libya, Stephanie Williams, has urged leaders of the country’s House of Representatives and High Council of State to make “historic compromise” as they began their two-day talks on constitutional arrangements for elections.
U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Richard Norland, held talks on Tuesday with outgoing prime minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, at Libyan government headquarters in Tripoli.