The Chairman of the High Council of State (HCS), Khalid Al-Mishri, accompanied by the first deputy head of the HCS, Mohammed Baki, held a meeting on Wednesday with the Minister of Finance, Khalid Al-Mabrouk.

The meeting addressed the functioning of the Ministry, the difficulties it encounters under the absence of a state budget, and ways of overcoming these difficulties.

The possibility of cooperation between the Council and the Government to provide a common salary scale was addressed as well. In fact, the cooperation aims at reducing the gap between the private and public sector pay.

The meeting also highlighted the most effective way to address the issue of subsidies in a way to boost the Libyan economic without affecting the living standards.

It should be noted that the Minister of Finance was accompanied by the Director of the Treasury Department, Dr. Al-Azhar Keshir, and the Director of the Ministry’s affairs, Al-Mahdi Al-Warshfani.