By Sami Zaptia.
Italy submitted on Tuesday two draft memoranda to Libya, Tripoli’s Foreign Ministry reported today.
The first memorandum related to cooperation in the field of digital technology used in public services to improve and simplify communication between citizens and public administrations.
The second was to demarcate the maritime borders between the two countries. The Libyan foreign Ministry said Italy wanted Libya to study the memoranda and express opinions about them in preparation for signing them.
The two memoranda were received by the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Technical Affairs, Mahmoud Al-Tilisi, during his meeting at the Foreign Ministry’s Tripoli headquarters with the Italian ambassador to Libya Buccino Grimaldi.
By Sami Zaptia.
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London, 26 January 2021:
Libya plans to develop several coastal free zones to link with neighbouring African states through its railway project and create partnerships with the EU.
The revelation was made by the Tripoli government’s Foreign Minister Mohamed Siala yesterday during a virtual workshop. The workshop was jointly organized by the Tripoli Foreign Ministry and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), of which Libya is a member.
Aim of workshop
The aim of the workshop, the Libyan Foreign Ministry said, was to educate the Libyan public and private sectors about COMESA programmes and deepen the interaction between them. It also aims to achieve regional integration through trade and the development of natural and human resources for the common benefit of all peoples on the African continent.
By Sami Zaptia.
Faiez Serraj has called on the UN to support Libya’s 24 December elections and results through technical support and a UN Security Council Resolution (Photo: MoI).
London, 23 January 2021:
Faiez Sarraj, the head of Libya’s internationally recognized government based in Tripoli, has called on the United Nations to support Libya’s planned 24 December elections. His call came in a letter sent Thursday addressed to the UN Secretary General and the President of the United Nations Security Council, Tripoli’s Foreign Ministry reported Thursday (21 January).
Serraj called on the UN to support Libya in holding the national presidential and parliamentary elections on the specified date of 24 December 2021, ‘‘in response to the will of Libyans and what they decided, according to what the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) agreed on in sisterly Tunis’’.
By Sami Zaptia.
London, 29 December 2020:
A high-level Egyptian delegation headed by Undersecretary of the Egyptian Intelligence Service visited Tripoli on Sunday (27 December). It was the first such visit in six years.
It will be recalled that the Egyptian embassy in Tripoli closed in 2014 when Libya Dawn militias carried out a coup, which eventually led to the current political division in Libya.
The Tripoli Foreign Ministry’s Official Spokesperson, Mohamed Giblawi, said they discussed activating signed agreements on economy and security, as well as reopening the Egyptian embassy in Tripoli and finding urgent solutions to resuming flights between the two countries. urgent solutions should be found to resume flights to Cairo
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Malta has agreed to start issuing Schengen visa from its embassy in Tripoli, Libyan media is reporting.
The news arrived in the wake of an official visit to Tripoli by Finance Minister Clyde Caruana, in which he was reported to have met Libyan Deputy PM Ahmed Maiteeq, Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha and Transport Minister Milad Maitouq.
But the government was somewhat economical in its details on the purpose and outcome of Caruanaâs visit, with the ministry stating that âvarious topics of mutual interest for both countries were discussed, amongst them; air connection between Malta and Libya, the resumption of Air Malta flights to and from Libya, the training of Libyan public sector employees in Malta, as well as investment between the two countries.â