The Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh stressed the need to follow up on the disbursement of the children’s allowance for the next six months, which was referred to the Central Bank of Libya.
Dbeibeh, during his visit today to the headquarters of the Ministry of Social Affairs in Tripoli, gave instructions to Minister Wafaa Al-Kilani to invite the directors of departments and offices in the ministry to hold an expanded meeting to address the difficulties and problems facing the workflow in the ministry, and also stressed the need to pay attention to the role of care and provide the necessary services to them within the plan of the Ministry for the year 2022.
The Minister of Youth, Fathallah Al-Zani, followed up on the office and logistical equipment in the stores of the Marriage Facilitation Fund and identified the necessary needs, in the presence of the Director of the Youth Institutions Department with a number of officials in the Fund.
This came in preparation for expanding the scope of the work of the Marriage Facilitation Fund, and to start the stage of preparing the offices and branches of the Fund to facilitate the process of providing services for the benefit of facilitating marriage for young people in all of Libya.
The Minister of Economy and Trade in charge Ali Al-Abed held a meeting today, Monday, which included the head of the Municipal Guard and the directors of the internal trade, inspection and consumer protection departments in the ministry, in the presence of the General Company for Mills and Feed and the General Union of Bakeries, to prepare the Food Security Strategy 2022-2027.
Also, reviewing the progress of the supply of wheat and flour for bakeries and ways to provide a strategic stock of them, and discussing the problems and obstacles facing the supply of wheat through milling companies related to the implementation of the necessary credits through the Central Bank of Libya.
A number of proposals were additionally reviewed that would organize and facilitate the supply of flour to bakeries, provide a strategic stock of wheat and flour with mill companies and flour factories, and establish storage silos in ports.
The Deputy Prime Minister of the Libyan government assigned by the House of Representatives Ali Faradj Al-Qatrani met, today Monday, with the Chairman of the National Planning Council Miftah Al-Harir and in the presence of a number of council officials, where they discussed the mechanism of unifying institutions and merging them in the required way, and the mechanism of distributing spatial development.
Al-Harir also explained that more than 100 institutions were contacted in order to integrate the institutions in the required manner, activate the offices of ministries and branches of institutions, and give them full powers to take the necessary measures, each according to its geographical location, to facilitate services for citizens.
The Benghazi sea port received the container transport ship (Fas Damam), the shipping agent, the Libyan Waves for Shipping Agency, with 356 containers of different goods and commodities on board. The ship (Kent Ship Jane), the shipping agent, Libyan Waves for Shipping Agency, was also entered with 312 containers loaded with various goods on board.
The port also added the entry of the ship (Mohamed F), the shipping agent, the Libya Al-Tadamen Shipping Agency, with 4900 tons of bulk cement on board.
This Monday morning, a large-scale inspection campaign for the Internal Security Agency was launched in Abu-Salim municipality, accompanied by the inspectors of the Food and Drug Control Center and members of the Municipal Guard under the slogan “Consumer Protection.”
The campaign targets clinics, medical facilities, pharmacies, butchers selling meat and food stores, in order to ensure their compliance with the health and standard requirements that must be met, as well as adherence to the specific pricing approved by the Ministry of Economy.
The Chairman of the Directors Board of the National Oil Corporation, Mustafa Sanalla confirmed that Libya can reach production to three million barrels per day, contrary to what those who give a bleak picture of Libya say, referring to the statements of the Minister of Oil and Gas in the Government of National Unity, Mohammed Aoun.
Sanalla said in a speech during the second regular meeting of 2022 for heads and members of committees and councils of companies and oil institutes yesterday, Sunday, that Libya can play a very important role in the global market, contrary to what some say that Libya does not have the ability to increase production, stressing that it is possible reaching the production of Libyan oil to three million barrels per day, and that the Waha Oil Company can reach alone its production to one million barrels.
Sanalla added that “ this will only come through the efforts of workers in the oil sector and infrastructure reform, noting that our oil fields are in an excellent condition, and whoever says otherwise does not know anything about oil ”, “ and does not know anything about it, gossiping and looking into the channels and the media to give a bleak picture of Libya,” according to what he said, referring to the statements of the Minister of Oil and Gas, “Mohamed Aoun.”
The Chairman of the Corporation’s Board of Directors concluded his speech by saying that Libya will be stable and oil will play a key role in this stability, with the efforts of the workers in this vital sector who work very hard despite all the difficult security conditions, the scarcity of budgets and the division of the country, stressing that the oil sector despite all that remained united and will remain so until forever.
The Minister of Planning and of Finance in the Libyan government, Oussama Hammad, called on the governor of the Central Bank of Libya Seddik Al-Kabeer and the deputy governor, Ali Al-Hibri to circulate to banks not to deal and provide their banking services to all public agencies except according to correspondences issued by the Minister of Planning and of Finance in the Libyan government alone.
Hammad referred to the Banking Law N° 1 of 2005, which stipulates that the bank may, with the approval of the Minister of Finance, entrust commercial banks with maintaining the account balances of some public administrative units within the limits and on the conditions approved by the Directors Board, adding that this is within the framework of mutual cooperation to preserve general money.
The Prime Minister of the National Unity Government , Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh announced the end of the registration phase in the housing loan system and instructed him to establish controls to start disbursing housing loans as soon as possible.
This came during an expanded meeting held by Dbeibeh this evening, Wednesday, at the Cabinet Office, which included the ministerial committee in charge of implementing the housing lending initiative, the Real Estate Registration Authority, the Director of the Public Property Authority, the Director General of the Savings and Real Estate Investment Bank, and the advisor to the Governor of the Central Bank of Libya.
The Prime Minister of the National Unity Government stressed that the housing initiative needs exceptional efforts for its success, and that serious work must be done to actually start implementing it by entering into the stage of handing over loans.
For his part, the Minister of Local Government explained that the system that was prepared in which nearly one million citizens registered, and those who completed filling out the required data and sending documents amounted to about 600,000 citizens, and thus considered the end of the first phase of the initiative, which is registration.
At the conclusion of the meeting, Dbeibeh issued instructions to complete the procedures for unfinished residential lands and apartments, to determine the beneficiaries in particular, and to put in place practical controls to start disbursing housing loans in the near future.
As pressure mounts for a ban on Russian oil and gas imports, the DIW Research Center suggests alternative suppliers and lower consumption could free Germany from its dependence on the Kremlin for its energy needs.
Germany could reduce its dependence on Russian energy imports by the winter of this year, as this is much closer to the government’s estimates for mid 2024 or possibly beyond.
It is important to fill the strategic reserves to 80:90% before the onset of winter as well as the more efficient use of the European pipeline system to increase German gas imports from North African countries such as Libya via the southern European Union.
