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The European External Action Service (EEAS), the diplomatic service and combined Foreign and Defense ministry of the European Union (EU), rejected charges leveled against the EU allegedly planning to send military forces to Libya to prop up ceasefire, Libya Observer reports. “The EU is committed to continue supporting Libya’s return to peace and stability, including […]
Turkey Tuesday complained to Libyan authorities about the desecration of its flags by followers of Libyan rebel General Khalifa Haftar, in Tobruk, East of the oil-rich African country. Haftar’s supporters placed a Turkish flag on the street for cars to drive on it en route to the headquarters of the House of Representatives in Tobruk, […]
In a letter dated Monday, the president of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed El Menfi, called on Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dbeibah to quickly appoint a defense minister. The post has been vacant since the Government was announced in March due to its sensitive nature. Both opposing camps want to take the post. […]
Libya’s Prime minister Abdelhamid Dbeibah who was on a visit to Rabat Sunday and Monday at the head of a large delegation held talks with several Moroccan officials who have all reiterated Morocco’s active and continued support to any consensual solution to the Libyan issue, while the Libyan official expressed his country’s gratefulness for the […]
Morocco has opened its arms to all Libyan stakeholders to facilitate a mediation without interference in a way that would usher Libya’s political stability, unity and welfare. Few days after the key visit by Speaker of the Libyan Parliament Aguila Saleh to Morocco, the Libyan Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dbeibah was in Rabat this Sunday where […]
Morocco plays a central role in the process of resolving the Libyan crisis, said speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives Aguila Saleh, underlining that “the Kingdom supports us daily and is in constant contact with us to achieve this goal.” Aguila Saleh visited Morocco Thursday for the second time in less than a month, […]
Forces loyal to Libya’s renegade General Khalifa Hafter closed the Essen border crossing with Algeria whose president threatened to send forces to Tripoli. Haftar’s military build-up near the Algerian borders was interpreted as a response to Algeria’s President Abdelmedjid Tebboune who told Al Jazeera recently that his country was ready to send troops to prevent […]
After two years of closure, the coastal road between the east and the west of Libya has been reopened this Sunday, June 20. The road, some 370 kilometers from capital Tripoli, links the west of Libya, from its border with Tunisia, to the east towards Egypt. The reopening which took place in the presence of […]
Several high-level security meetings were held on Monday June 14 in Tripoli to try to put an end to the clashes that have been taking place since Thursday in Ajaylat, a town located 90 km west of the Libyan capital. The clashes resulted in eight casualties, including civilians. The Presidential Council, the authority that runs […]
Preparations for the Berlin 2 Conference, scheduled on June 23, were at the focus of phone talks between UNSG’s Special Envoy for Libya and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya, Ján Kubiš, and Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita. The talks are part of consultations conducted by the UN Special Envoy with national and […]