Ahmed Abu Heisa, Libya’s Minister of Industry and Minerals, and Italian Ambassador to Libya, Gianluca Alberini, discussed on Sunday “the importance of strengthening economic cooperation between Italy and Libya and allowing the return of Italian companies to the North African country,” according to a statement by the Libyan Ministry of Industry.
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A new UN political initiative was the focus of a telephone conversation yesterday between Chairman of the High Council of State, Mohamed Takala, and UN Envoy to Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, revealed the council today.
Libya has been designated vice-president of the 42nd conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) based in Paris.
The Franco-Libyan Transport Forum will be held from 11 to 12 December at MEDEF’s Paris headquarters.
A fishing boat carrying over 200 migrants and refugees was intercepted off the coast of Lampedusa, Italy and escorted by coast guard patrol boats to the island’s commercial pier on Sunday, ANSA News reported.
Defense Ministry of the Government of National Unity (GNU) asked the Turkish ally at the Al-Watiya Airbase to reconnoiter the camps of General Osama Juwaili and those wanted in Zintan and other Western Mountain areas, all the way to Al-Aziziyah, A source at the Ministry told The Libya Update.
The Minister of Culture of the Government of National Unity, Mabrouka Toghi, has said that Libya’s accession to the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage aimed at the protection and highlighting Libya’s cultural heritage.
Political instability in Libya is one of the major drivers of weapons trafficking in northern Nigeria, reports the United States Africa Command.
Mohamed Takala, chairman of Libya’s High Council of State, is “not ready” to join the parliament in forming a new unified government that will lead the country to the elections, said Abdel Salam Nasia, a member of the House of Representatives.
Libya is the second largest donor of humanitarian aid to Gaza, according to the Egyptian Red Crescent.