Senior officials at the European Union’s Operation IRINI were denied visa entry to Libya by the Libyan government, IRINI commander revealed on Saturday.
Libya’s Minister of Social Affairs, Wafaa Al-Kilani, met on Wednesday with Cristina Albertin, the Regional Representative for the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in the Middle East and North Africa, to discuss joint projects, training and the migration crisis, according to a statement by the Ministry of Social Affairs.
The number of COVID-19 cases recorded in Libya in the last 24 hours is a “dangerous and unprecedented indicator”, said Badr Al-Din Al-Najjar, the Director of the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC).
Samuel Werberg, a spokesman for the U.S. State Department, said on Saturday that the presence of foreign forces and mercenaries in Libya is the biggest obstacle to the peace process in the country, calling on Turkey and Russia to withdraw their fighters.
The Speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR), Aqila Saleh, spoke about reasons that prompted HoR members not to pass the draft general budget submitted by the Government of National Unity.
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The Speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives, Aguila Saleh, and the General Commander of the Libyan National Army, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, discussed the latest developments in Libya, in a meeting that brought the two on Thrusday evening in Rajma, east of Benghazi.
The National Center for Disease Control in Libya announced the registration of 2,866 new cases of COVID-19, four deaths, and 4,406 recoveries, in the highest daily number of cases recorded in 24 hours since the beginning of the pandemic.
A virtual meeting of the Proposals Bridging Committee of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) will be convened by the U.N. Mission in Libya on 16 and 17 July to to “reconcile the differences among the LPDF members over key outstanding issues” and “construct a compromise draft constitutional basis” for the upcoming elections in December, the U.N. Mission announced on Thursday.