The Biden administration has notified Congress of its plan to restore the US diplomatic presence in Libya, after a decade of unrest in the North African country that forced US diplomats to evacuate the US embassy in Tripoli.
The State Department submitted formal notification to lawmakers this month, beginning what the department expects will be a one- to two-year process to establish a “temporary diplomatic facility” in Libya, a senior State Department official told Al-Monitor.
The United States has no embassy in Libya since its personnel withdrew under intense military guard in 2014 amid fighting between militias in Tripoli.
American diplomats moved to Malta and then to Tunisia, where they now form a remote mission known as the Foreign Office for Libya.