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The Minister of Economy asks the Customs Authority to stop the implementation of the Al-Abed decision to grant approval to Mazaya Libya company to export 930 tons of fish

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The Minister of Economy and Trade in the National UnityGovernment , Mohammed Al-Huwaij, issued a circular to the Customs Authority to stop the implementation of the decision of the Minister in charge, Ali al-Abed, to grant approval to Mazaya Libya company to export 930 tons of fish, stressing the need to work on the decision of Al-Huwaij to prevent the export of fish.

Al-Abed had assumed the task of the designated Minister of Economy after Al-Huwaij went on vacation last month. During this period, Al-Abed issued a decision approving the export of a quantity of fresh fish and mollusks estimated at about 930 tons for the benefit of the Mazaya Libya company for import and export of fish.

In his correspondence with the Director of the Customs Authority, Al-Huwaij stressed the need to stop Al-Abed’s decision and to abide by the decision to prevent the export of fish of all kinds, which was issued by Al-Huwaij last March.

Dbeibeh chairs the first meeting of the Board of Trustees of the National Economic and Social Development Board

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Today, Thursday, the Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, chaired the first meeting of the Board of Trustees of the National Economic and Social Development Board, in the presence of the members of the Board, the Central Governor of Libya Seddik al-Kabeer, the Chairman of the Directors Board of the Libyan Investment Authority Ali Mahmoud, the Ministers of Finance, of Planning, of Economy, of Oil and Gas and of Foreign Affairs and of Social Affairs and the Director General of theNational Economic and Social Development Board.

The meeting discussed the establishment of the Libyan Economic Forum, which will contribute to confronting local and international economic challenges through the participation of relevant parties in the economic affairs. The Board of Trustees, during its first meeting, approved the Board’s plan for the year of 2022 after making technical and legal notes on it. Dbeibeh stressed the need to benefit from the Board through its experts, in preparing the necessary studies and recommendations, and considers him as an repository of expertise for the government.

The Central Bank publishes the details of requests for opening documentary credits

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The Central Bank of Libya published the details of the requests for opening documentary credits that were implemented during the period from 14/04/2022 to 27/04/2022.

This is based on the circular of the Banking and Monetary Control Department of the Central Bank of Libya No. 9 of 2020 dated in regarding the regulations governing the procedures for opening documentary credits and in reference to paragraph No. 5 of the general controls in the aforementioned circular, which requires the approval of the requesting parties to open credits on the establishment of the Central Bank of Libya publishing the details of those credits.

Libyan Airlines resumes its domestic flights

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The Libyan Airlines Company announced the resumption of its domestic flights, starting from tomorrow, Friday, from Mitiga International Airport in Tripoli to Tobruk, Sebha and Ghat airports.

The company explained that its domestic flight schedule will include a weekly flight from Mitiga International Airport to Tobruk Airport on Friday morning, and two weekly flights from Mitiga International Airport to Sebha Airport, as well as to Ghat Airport on Mondays and Fridays of every week.

The National Unity Government issues a decision regarding the disbursement of a financial grant to each family of the displaced people of the Eastern Region

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The Cabinet of the National Unity Government headed by Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh issued Resolution No. 429 of 2022 authorizing the disbursement of a financial grant.

The decision stipulated that the Ministry of Social Affairs is authorized to disburse a monthly grant of (1,000) one thousand Libyan dinars to each family of the displaced people of the eastern region, in deduction from the amounts transferred to the Ministry for this purpose, to be due from the beginning of January 2022 until the end of the year.

Gas and Oil are at the center of Washington’s discussions on Libya

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The Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said during his visit to the White House that Libya could be a huge resource for gas and oil for Europe, as the US President Joe Biden is interested because identifying different suppliers means helping Europeans break free from dependence on Russian energy.

According to Draghi, Libya’s potential production of crude oil exceeds one million barrels per day, but production has currently decreased due to internal instability, while the issue has now become more sensitive if it is placed in a context in which Africa is identified from many European countries as a solution to get rid of Russian dependency. The other side of the issue is related to natural gas.

The Italian Ambassador to Libya, Giuseppe Buccino, said during the “Focus on the Mediterranean Libya” round table organized by the Italian University of Lewis in mid-April that 65% of the gas extracted in western Libya towards the border with Tunisia is used by the Libyans and the rest goes to the Greenstream Pipeline.

Buccino added that the development of alternative energy routes could unlock more export rates in a market that has a potential of 30%.

This comes as Draghi government expected about two billion cubic meters of Libya within the framework of the Italian plan for liberation from Russia, a plan that has another significant impact in North Africa and a deep partnership with Algeria.

The institutional stalemate is also a very complicating factor. Italy, Europe and the United States have already requested the reopening of the oil wells, which is costing the country tens of millions of euros that will be necessary for investments for the Libyans.

The return of the embassy to Tripoli and the granting of visas were the most prominent topics of discussion between the Libyan ambassador to Russia and his Russian counterpart Chargé d’Affairs

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A phone call took place yesterday, Tuesday, May 10, 2022, between Libya’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Russian Federation, Mohamed Abdullah Al-Maghrawi with the Chargé d’Affairs of the Russian Embassy in Libya and resident in Tunisia, Jamshid Poltaev.

The Libyan ambassador touched on ways to make the plan to open the Russian embassy in Tripoli succeed and start its work from the Libyan capital in the near future. He also spoke about what was recently circulated on social media about the claim that the Russian embassy in Libya, residing in Tunisia, had stated that the embassy had stopped granting visas to Libyan citizens as well as Libyan businessmen, which was refuted by the Russian Chargé d’Affairs, and said that “the work is taking place according to the usual context and that there are no restrictions imposed on Libyan citizens.”

Al-Jazeera reporter, Shereen Abu Akleh, have been shot and killed by the Israeli forces in Palestine

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The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced today, Wednesday, the death of the 51-year-old journalist Shereen Abu Akleh, Al-Jazeera reporter in Palestine, as the Israeli occupation forces shot dead while she was covering the storming of Jenin camp.

The ministry also announced that her colleague, Ali Al-Samoudi, had been shot in the back, noting that his health condition was stable.

Local sources indicated that the occupation soldiers surrounded a house in Jenin camp amid armed clashes, and opened fire indiscriminately, which led to the registration of a number of serious injuries.

The official Palestinian news agency “Wafa” quoted the injured journalist Smoudi as saying that he was accompanied by Shereen Abu Akleh and a group of journalists in the vicinity of the schools of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) near Jenin camp, and everyone was wearing helmets and journalists’ uniforms.

He added: “The occupation forces targeted journalists directly,” which led to him being shot in the back, and the death of his colleague, Abu Akleh, after she was shot in the head.

Al-Samoudi added: “The place where the journalists were present was clear to the occupation soldiers, and there were no armed men or confrontations in that area, and the targeting was done deliberately.”

Shereen Nasri Abu Akleh, a journalist born in Jerusalem in 1971 working with the Al-Jazeera media network, originated from a well-known Christian family in Bethlehem. After graduation, she returned to Palestine and worked for several sites such as UNRWA, Voice of Palestine Radio, and Amman Channel, Moftah Foundation, Radio Monte Carlo, and later moved to work in 1997 with Al Jazeera TV channel.

The Ministry of Oil: “The person that is behind the closure of the oil fields and ports is the one who was given permission to open them; it is Aqila Saleh”

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The Ministry of Oil and Gas in the Government of National Unity said in a statement today, Wednesday, that no component or civil bloc has anything to do with the process of closing the oil and that who closed the oil fields and ports was the one who gave permission to open, according to what was stated in the statement of the Crescent Petroleum bloc, which is the Speaker of Parliament, Aqila Saleh. .

In its statement, the ministry stated that it had followed up, since the beginning of the crisis, the closure of some oil fields and ports through a committee it had set up for this purpose. For the people of the areas adjacent to the oil sites, some of them are legitimate, but they did not participate in the recent closing process or agree to it. It became clear to the committee that no component or civil bloc had anything to do with the closing process and that those who closed the oil fields and ports were the ones who gave permission to open according to what came in the statement of the Crescent Petroleum Consortium.

The Ministry of Oil and Gas stressed that the process of resuming production would have a positive impact on the Libyan economy in addition to the infrastructure of the oil sector, calling on everyone to neutralize the oil and gas sector from political conflicts and placing the interest of the State of Libya above all else.

A meeting between the Minister of Transport and his Tunisian counterpart on the sidelines of the Future Aviation Forum in Riyadh

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The Minister of Transport in the Government of National Unity, Mohammed Salem Al-Shahoubi, met with the Tunisian Minister of Transport, Rabie Al-Majidi. The meeting was attended from the Libyan side by the head of the Libyan Civil Aviation Authority, Mustafa Ben Ammar and the head of the Airports Authority, Mohamed Bait Al-Mal, and from the Tunisian side, the Director General The Office of Aviation and Airports and the Director General of Tunisair.

Many topics were discussed, the most important of which is settling the financial debts of the Libyan Airlines and Afriqiyah Airways, resolving the outstanding problems at Ras Ajdir Wazen crossings, and the return of operating flights on Tunisian Airlines. The meeting also touched upon discussing the opening of a maritime line between the two countries.