Creating a constitutional basis for elections and transparent management of oil revenues were at the center of talks that took place in Cairo on Friday between Speaker of Libya’s House of Representatives, Aguila Saleh, and U.S. Ambassador to Libya Richard Norland.
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The U.S. State Department has stated that Libya’s Government of National Unity, led by Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, is obligated “not to consider new agreements” after the latter recently a signed controversial hydrocarbons deal with Turkey.
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.
A national security board on Friday cleared a Libyan man who has been held at Guantánamo Bay without charge for 20 years to be transferred to another country if one can be found to take him, continuing the Biden administration’s effort to reduce the detainee population at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba.
The United States has commended Libyan Audit Bureau for its work on the recently published 2021 report, which documents misuse of public funds by the Tripoli-based government.
The U.S. Ambassador and Special Envoy to Libya, Richard Norland, led his country’s diplomatic team to commemorate the victims of the terrorist attack against U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi on the 11th of September 2012, according to the American embassy.
The Tripoli-based government of Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh has agreed to assign land lots to the embassies of Qatar, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and the United States, according to state-owned media platform known as Hakometna.
The U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, welcomed on Sunday the appointment of new Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the U.N. Mission in Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily.
U.S. Special Envoy and Ambassador to Libya, Richard Norland, spoke on the phone today with Prime Minister-designate Fathi Bashagha following the latter’s trip to Turkey, the American embassy announced.
U.S. Assistant Secretary Barbara Leaf and U.S. Ambassador to Libya Richard Norland held talks in Tunis on Wednesday to discuss “prospects for boosting the U.S. diplomatic presence in Libya to promote stability, security cooperation, economic growth, and sustainable development”.