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The United States on Thursday called for the immediate withdrawal of Russian and Turkish forces from Libya, after a deadline for them to leave was ignored.
This appeal marked a firmer expression of U.S. policy toward oil-rich Libya under the new administration of President Joe Biden.
“We call on all external parties, to include Russia, Turkey and the UAE, to respect Libyan sovereignty and immediately cease all military intervention in Libya,” acting U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Richard Mills said during a U.N. Security Council meeting on Libya, which has seen a decade of fighting since the overthrow of Muammar Gadhafi.
ΥΠΕΞ: Η Ελλάδα χαιρετίζει ψήφο Λιβυκού Φόρουμ Πολιτικού Διαλόγου
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ΥΠΕΞ: Υπέρ της ψήφου του LPDF για τον μηχανισμό επιλογής νέας προσωρινής Εκτελεστικής Αρχής στη Λιβύη
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By Sami Zaptia.
London, 23 January 2021:
UNSMIL announced yesterday that on 21 January, the co-chairs of the International Follow-Up Committee on Libya’s Economic Working Group (EWG), including Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya Stephanie Williams and representatives of Egypt, the United States and the European Union, convened a meeting to discuss urgent economic issues. These included the need to manage the impacts of a unified exchange rate as well as the need to unify and consolidate a national budget.
The Governor of the Central Bank of Libya Sadek El-Kaber, the Minister of Finance Faraj Bumtari and his counterpart Mrajea Ghaith participated in the meeting as well as senior diplomats representing the member states of the Berlin Conference, experts from the Libyan Economic Dialogue, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the IMF and the World Bank.