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Foundations set for future collaboration between authorities
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The possibility of a memorandum of understanding to strengthen cooperation between the government of Malta and that of Libya was discussed during a three-day familiarisation visit by the Libyan Customs Authority.
A government statement said that officials from the Libyan Customs Authority were guests of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Customs Malta during an official visit during which plans have been drafted for furthering collaboration between the respective authorities.
The delegation visited several Customs outstations, including the Scanning Facility at the Freeport, and familiarised themselves with good practices employed by the Maltese authority.
Foreign Minister
Pekka Haavisto (Green) retains the confidence of parliament after MPs voted by 101-68 to support him over his actions in sidelining a civil servant who disagreed with him over repatriating Finnish children from the Al-Hol camp in Syria.
Haavisto had asked that
Pasi Tuominen, a senior official at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, be assigned new duties.
Tuominen had disagreed with the minister during the planning of an operation to assist Finnish children at the Al-Hol camp, which houses women and children who had been living in Isis-controlled areas of Syria.
After complaints by MPs from the National Coalition party, the Finns Party and the Christian Democratic party, parliament s Constitutional Law Committee an organ composed of MPs which exercises some of the functions of a constitutional court launched an investigation.