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French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield and her Russian counterpart Dmitry Polyanskiy stressed upon the necessity to hold the Libyan general elections on December 24 during a Security Council meeting on Libya today.

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Ján Kubiš, the U.N. Special Envoy to Libya, told the Security Council that Libya would “slip back into violence and chaos” if the presidential and parliamentary elections in December were to be disrupted.

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Libyan journalist Mahmud El-Forjani said the absence of Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush from the Security Council session held today to discuss the situation in Libya “is a fault committed by the National Unity Government headed by Abdel Hamid Dabaiba.”

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A ministerial-level meeting at the U.N. Security Council commenced on Thursday to discuss the situation in Libya.

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Qatar’s development fund has signed a grant deal with The International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS), which is based in Doha, to “empower youth and promote peace and development in Libya through sport”, local Qatari media reports. The deal does not disclose the name of the Libyan party that partnered with the two organizations to implement this project.

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A new committee of the House of Representatives, which is tasked with drafting electoral legislations, will hold its first meeting with the High National Election Commission (HNEC) and the U.N. Mission in Libya following Eid Al-Adha holiday (from July 19th to 23rd), committee member Muftah Quaider said on Wednesday.

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Libya’s Presidential Council has directed the government to “harness all capabilities” to support Tunisia after the country was hit by a new wave of Coronavirus outbreak.

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Libya recorded on Wednesday 2,604 new cases of COVID-19, while three people were recorded to have died and 415 others recovered, according to a statement by the National Central for Disease Control (NCDC).

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Ali Tarshani, the spokesman of the Libyan National Army’s Joint Security Room in Sabha, confirmed on Wednesday that forces of the LNA entered the southern city of Murzuq on Tuesday afternoon in coordination with the city’s residents.

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Laura Boldrini, a member of Italian Chamber of Deputies, has called on her country’s parliament not to human rights violations committed by the Libyan Coast Guard, following a shooting incident against migrants.

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