The Libyan Embassy in Tunisia has set an emergency committee to take urgent action to expatriate Libyans stranded in Tunisia, in line with the instructions of the Presidency Council and the Head of the Government of National Unity in this respect.

The Libyan Embassy said on its SMS page that ‘under direct instructions from the Foreign Minister, the Charge D’affairs of the Libyan Embassy in Tunis called for an emergency meeting, which was attended by the Consul and several attaches.

An emergency committee was agreed at the meeting, to be chaired by the Charge D’affairs to follow up the situation of the Libyan community and the stranded people, and to tend to their needs. Expatriation of the stranded persons has already started, the Embassy said.