Month: March 2023

Head of the Presidential Council, Mohamed Al-Menfi, received, Wednesday, the Secretary-General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Haitham Faisal Al-Ghais, in the presence of Minister of Oil and Gas of the Government of National Unity, Mohamed Aoun.

According to the media office of the Presidential Council, Al-Menfi indicated in the meeting the importance of the hoped-for role of the organization in maintaining coordination between the oil-producing countries.

For his part, Al-Ghais hailed Libya’s role and keen interest in the unity of OPEC and strengthening its efforts to serve common interests of all, considering that Libya is one of the main partners within the organization.

Source: Libyan News Agency

A group of politicians, party leaders, and representatives of civil and community organizations and trade unions held a political dialogue forum, today, Wednesday, in Tripoli, to discuss what was stated in the recent briefing of UN envoy Abdullah Batili to the Security Council regarding his intention to form a high-level technical committee to prepare for the elections in Libya.

The group, which calls itself the “Scientific Political and Societal Spectrum Group”, announced in a statement its endorsement and support for Batili’s call for simultaneous presidential and parliamentary elections during the current year 2023.

The group considered that holding elections this year is the only way out of the crisis the country is going through, calling on all political parties in Libya to show a sense of responsibility towards the country.

The scientific, political, and social spectrum group demanded that the high-level committee proposed by Batili include candidates for the presidential and parliamentary elections, party leaders, councils of wise men, university professors, trade unions, civil society organizations and women’s associations.

In the statement, they also called for taking into account the geographical dimension of the political spectrum participating in the committee, working to create conditions for consensus on a unified national project, and providing guarantees for the success of the dialogue, both locally and internationally.

It is noteworthy that the Scientific, Political, and Societal Spectrum Group was established on January 24, and includes in its membership 26 candidates for the presidential elections, 108 candidates for the parliamentary elections, 26 leaders of political parties, 250 university professors, 100 wise men and dignitaries of Libya, 80 civil society organizations, and women and youth activists.

The group developed a national pact that works according to principles, including criminalizing violence, respecting the unity of Libya, preventing foreign interference, building security institutions, respecting national sovereignty, separation of powers, and formulating a new concept of national security.

Among the group’s declared principles are the adoption of a comprehensive system for environmental sanitation, the launch of a program for spatial development, the achievement of social justice, the criminalization of incitement and the culture of hatred in all its forms, and the abolition of secret and public agreements that violate Libyan land.

Source: Libyan News Agency

The head of the Government of National Unity, “Abdul Hamid Al-Dabaiba,” said that he had instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation to raise the level of coordination with the United Nations in the field of technical support and advice to the High National Elections Commission.

Al-Dabaiba added, in a tweet on his Twitter account, that this step aims to “work to achieve the due national elections in the country, in line with our aspirations to end the transitional stages in a peaceful manner through free and fair elections.”

Source: Libyan News Agency

The German Ambassador to Libya, “Michael Unmacht,” welcomed the briefing of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, “Abdullah Batili” at the Security Council meeting on Libya the day before yesterday, Monday.

“Unmacht” said in a tweet that it posted on its Twitter account, “that his country supports the efforts of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to hold elections in 2023 through a Libyan-owned process under the auspices of the United Nations – and also by facilitating more international support through the Berlin process.” .

Source: Libyan News Agency

Today, Wednesday, the 40th session of the Council of Arab Interior Ministers was held in the Tunisian capital with the participation of the Minister of Interior, Imad Mustafa Trabelsi.

During this session, which was launched under the auspices of the President of the Republic of Tunisia, Kais Saied, the ministers discussed activating the Council’s work in the field of cybersecurity and combating electronic crimes, respecting human rights in security work, and amending the Council’s regulations in line with developments.

The Council also reviewed the executive plan for the Arab strategy to combat terrorism, which was developed in line with the United Nations strategy to combat terrorism, according to what was published by the Ministry of Interior on its official Facebook page.

The session was attended by the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the interior ministers of the Arab countries, and senior security delegations, in addition to representatives of the League of Arab States, the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, the Arab Maghreb Union, the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), The United Nations Office for Combating Terrorism, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Europol, Naif Arab University for Security Sciences and the Arab Police Sports Federation.

Source: Libyan News Agency