Tripoli- The High Council of State objected to the statements of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, “Najla Al-Manqoush”, during her meeting with a number of deputies, in which she emphasized the ministry’s role in expediting the approval of the constitutional rule to expedite the holding of presidential and parliamentary elections.
The media office of the High Council of State said in a statement on the Council’s Facebook page that it “followed what was stated on the official page of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of National Unity regarding the alleged role of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in efforts to approve the constitutional rule for the presidential and parliamentary elections, during the Minister of Foreign Affairs’ meeting with a number of of the members of the House of Representatives.
The media office confirmed that “there is no role for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding approving the constitutional rule, neither from near nor from afar.”
Al-Manqoush stressed, during her meeting yesterday, Wednesday, at the ministry’s headquarters, with a number of members of the Libyan Parliament, the role of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in expediting the approval of the constitutional rule to expedite the holding of presidential and parliamentary elections, on democratic and legal grounds.
Source: Libyan News Agency