The Governor of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) Al-Siddiq Al-Kabir met Monday the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul.
According to a brief statement by the media office of the CBL on Facebook, Erdogan and Al-Kabir reviewed issues of mutual interest.
it should be noted that the Governor of the Libyan Central Bank also met with the Turkish Minister of Finance and Treasury Berat Albayrak, discussing issues of mutual interest, according to the CBL.
Head of the Tripoli-based Presidential Council, Fayez al-Sarraj, and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte have agreed on the return of Italian companies to Libya and the resume of their work in the country, during a meeting between the two in Rome.
“The two officials have renewed during the meeting that the solution to the Libyan crisis cannot be military and that everyone should work through a political path that achieves stability in accordance with the Security Council resolutions and the conclusions of the Berlin Conference,” Information Office of the Presidential Council said in a statement.
“Al-Sarraj and Conte also agreed that the Italian efforts would continue to dismantle mines and remove remnants of war from southern Tripoli, which began in the past days,” the Information Office added.
After the GNA’s gains this month, NOC attempted to reopen Sharara and El Feel oil fields, before armed groups stopped it. Last week it said Russian mercenaries had occupied Sharara.
There have been negotiations in recent weeks between NOC, the GNA and regional countries, overseen by the United Nations and United States, an NOC spokesman said.
“We are hopeful that those regional countries will lift the blockade and allow us to resume our work,” the spokesman said.
An LNA spokesman said on television that it welcomed any popular mandate to protect the oilfields.
The NOC spokesman said the company would start producing oil again right away if workers’ security was guaranteed.
“We need to resume work immediately to save our infrastructure and the Libyan economy,” the spokesman said.
“NOC is determined that the agreement will guarantee transparency and that oil revenues will achieve social justice for all Libyans,” he said.
A tribal leader in Libya’s oil-producing region on Monday indicated tribes there were ending a blockade on output and exports, saying “we opened the oil”, and have handed authority to eastern-based forces to negotiate a restart in production.
However, some other tribal leaders in the region did not take part in the issuing of the statement, which came after the National Oil Corporation said international talks were under way over a resumption in production.
Libya has been named as the worst country in the world for workers’ rights – with those in the garment industry among the worst affected, according to a new survey.
The 2020 ITUC Global Rights Index, produced by the International Trade Union Confederation, lists Libya in the world’s ten worst countries for workers in 2020.
“Workers in Libya were exposed to mass dismissals, arrests, violence and state repression against peaceful protests. In the garment sector, strikes were often met with extreme brutality by police forces,” the report says.
Nine more unidentified bodies were discovered in mass graves in the Libyan city of Tarhuna, an official said Sunday.
Kamal Al-Siwi, chairman of the Libyan General Authority for Research and Identification of Missing Persons, announced that the number of corpses discovered had risen to 19 since search efforts began on June 5.
The US Command in Africa (AFRICOM) on Saturday underlined the strength of bilateral cooperation with the Libyan government.
In a statement to the private Libyan February TV, AFRICOM said the US views that peace should be established in Libya through a political process.
It warned that the involvement of the Russian Wagner mercenaries in Libya delays the achievement of peace in the country and prolongs the suffering of the Libyans.
AFRICOM said that it has underlined to the Libyan government “the necessity to return to dialogue”.
Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Fatih Donmez said yesterday that his country will cooperate with the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) on oil and gas exploration.
Speaking on a local TV channel, Donmez pointed out that Turkey spends about $40 billion annually on energy imports, and that this amount should be reduced through the energy produced locally. Over the past year, he added, Ankara produced 62 per cent of the total electric energy through local and renewable resources, reaching 66 per cent during the first five months of this year.
Commenting on the cooperation between Turkey and Libya in the energy field, Donmez stressed that Tripoli’s oil and natural resources should be used first to develop the country and achieve prosperity for its people.
Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) said on Monday there had been international talks to end a blockade on oil exports, imposed since January by eastern-based forces in the country’s civil war, and that it was hopeful output would resume.
The negotiations involved the internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA), the United Nations, the United States and regional countries, an NOC spokesman said in a statement said.
The National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced on Saturday that the total losses, due to the closure of ports and oil fields, exceeded six billion, 147 million dollars, subsequent to 161 days of forced closures of oil facilities.
