The Head of Media Office of Tobruk parliament, Abdullah Blihig, told Tabadul on Sunday that the plenary session scheduled for Monday to discuss the state’s budget bill has been postponed to next week.
According to Blihig, an official session may be held next week to select the country’s sovereign positions.
The Brega Oil Marketing Company sent on Sunday the fourth fuel convoy to Sebha oil depot to cover the needs of citizens in southern reagions.
The company stated that the fuel convoy is loaded with 1,588,000 liters of gasoline fuel, 90.000 liters of diesel fuel, and 40 tons of liquid gas.
The company added that the process of directing fuel shipments from Misrata oil depot will continue as long as conditions are suitable.
A blast struck a checkpoint in the southern Libyan city of Sebha on Sunday, killing at least two people including a senior police officer, local police, city officials and medics said.
A security source in Sebha said the blast was caused by a suicide bomber who detonated a car bomb.
Libya’s PM, Abdul Hamid Debaiba, welcomed the decision to open the Spanish embassy in Tripoli.
Speaking during a joint press conference on Thursday with his Libyan counterpart in the capital Tripoli, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said the Spanish consulate would start granting Schengen visas to Libyans immediately upon opening and would facilitate the process of movement between the two countries, as well as increase cooperation on projects.
“The Spanish community supports your march in building Libya and accompanying the UN in reaching the parliamentary and presidential elections on Dec. 24,” he added.
Debaiba said that Libya is looking forward to taking more of these steps and lifting the air ban on Libyan planes at European airports, especially in Spain, and granting visas to Libyan to students, investors and other groups.
Greece has expressed its strong dissatisfaction that Germany excluded Athens form the Berlin Conference on Libya, according to Keep Talking Greece.
“We are extremely dissatisfied with the fact that Germany, insisting on a tactic, did not invite us to the Berlin Conference this time as well”, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said on Thursday.
He underlined that he has expressed Greece’s dissatisfaction to his German counterpart, the Prime Minister will do the same, while he will soon meet with the EU special envoy for Libya Jan Koubis to convey the same.
Dendias reiterated that what the transitional government should be thinking about is the non-activation of the Turkish-Libyan memorandum on the maritime zones which is “legally non-existent” anyway.
On Wednesday, the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) called on the HoR to adopt a unified budget.
The UNSMIL said that the absence of a unified budget creates obstacles and impediments to the Government to improve the delivery of basic services to the population in all parts of Libya, including electricity and the COVID pandemics response, to the unification and effective functioning of State institutions, including military, security, economic and educational institutions.
The UNSMIL also urged domestic and external parties to take practical steps to start the full implementation of the ceasefire agreement, including through the withdrawal of all foreign forces and mercenaries from Libya without delay.
The Airports Authority discussed signing cooperation with the US Coleman International Company to enhance procedures and measures of civil aviation security at Libyan airports.
During an online meeting held with Coleman representatives on Thuesday, both parties discuss the airports’ needs, in terms of devices, equipment, in order to find traces of the explosives.
The Libyan M, Abubaker Saeed, revealed on Wednesday an expected meeting between the speaker of the House of Representatives, Aguila Saleh, and High Council of State leader, Khaled Al-Mishri in Morocco on Thursday.
He commented: “We are very surprised that Aguila Saleh and Khalid Al-Mishri insist on meeting outside Libya”, asking them the question “after the executive power has been unified, why no meet in Tripoli or Tobruk or any other Libyan city, does not that mean a return to the first square, and why is the state charged all these extra expenses.”
“Although we are reticent about meetings abroad, we wish them success,” he added, because “what matters to us is the rotation of the wheel and the acceleration in achievements, the most important of which is the unification of institutions and the consensus on a constitutional basis for the holding of elections next December.”
The Chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), Mustafa Sanallah, and Spanish Repsol company discussed the implementation of the renewable energies project according to what had been previously agreed upon between the two bodies and studying the generation of electricity by solar energy as well as the possibility of using the generated power by the company’s operations in its various locations.
The meeting also went over many important topics, including working with Repsol on reducing gas emissions, building an InWell center at NOC facilities, as well as Sharara oilfield production sustainability and improvements, in addition to joint cooperation in developing fields and social responsibility, and the establishment of a liquefied petroleum gas plant to provide gas to locals.
It was also agreed to hold several workshops with the concerned technical departments at NOC to maintain and increasing production, as well as to work on conducting an assist integrity studies to ensure the safety of the assets, especially after the frequent leaks and malfunctions due to the closures of the fields during the last few years.
The Libyan Minister of Finance, Khaled Al-Mabrouk, will participate in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) that will kick off at the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Center in the Russian northern capital on Wednesday and will last until 5 June, bringing together thousands of business representatives.
High-ranking representatives from Iran, Mexico and the Central African Republic (CAR), as well as President of the World Economic Forum Borge Brende, Total CEO Patrick Jean Pouyanne, and Siemens Energy AG head Christian Bruch are also expected to attend the SPIEF.