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Mar. 5, 2021
Libya’s newly elected leaders were showered with congratulatory speeches and good wishes. The U.S. ambassador, Richard Norland, phoned the new president of the Presidential Council, Mohammad Younes Menfi, congratulated him on his victory and promised U.S. assistance.Greece said it would reopen its embassy in Libya, and Morocco and Egypt joined the celebration.
Meanwhile, the American and European media announced a new era in Libya’s history that might last longer than the decade of civil wars that started with the Arab Spring.
The festive occasion took place on February 5 when the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum, sponsored by a UN official for Libya, Stephanie Williams, convened in a Geneva hotel. The forum elected Menfi head of the Presidential Council, his two deputies Abdullah al-Lafi and Moussa al-Kuni, and designated a prime minister, Abdul Hamid al-Dabaib.