The Minister of Labor and Rehabilitation of the Government of National Unity, Ali Al-Abed, held a meeting with the Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to Libya, Kenan Yilmaz, in his office this morning, in the presence of the Director of the International Cooperation Office at the Ministry, Adel Al-Uqbi.
During it, they reviewed the existing bilateral relations between the two friendly countries in various fields, foremost of which is the labor field, vocational training, and ways to enhance them. The meeting also touched upon the ongoing discussions between them regarding the memorandum of understanding regarding the movement of manpower between the two countries.
In conclusion, the Turkish ambassador expressed the common desire to take the existing cooperation to other areas to serve the interests of the two peoples.
Today, Wednesday, Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dabaiba held a session of talks with his Maltese counterpart, Robert Abela, at the Prime Minister’s headquarters in the capital, Valletta, in the presence of the Governor of the Central Bank of Libya, Siddiq Al-Kabeer, the Minister of Environment, Ibrahim Munir, of Marine Wealth Adel Sultan, of the State for Communication and Political Affairs Walid Al-Lafi, and the Director of the Telecom Holding Company, Mohamed Ben Ayed, and from the Maltese side, the Deputy Prime Minister and the Ministers of Health, of Foreign Affairs, of Economy and of Energy.
The talks dealt with the prospects of cooperation between the two countries in the fields of health, environment, marine wealth, illegal immigration, and the opening of airspace.
Dbeibeh stressed the importance of advancing cooperation efforts between the two countries in accordance with the vision that the government is working on to reform the health sector in Libya and improve services, stressing the role of Malta in advancing cooperation between the two countries through the role of the Maltese embassy in granting visas and encouraging cooperation between the private sector in Libya and Malta.
The Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, met today, Tuesday, with the Council of Notables of the Misrata Municipality, the head and members of its municipal council, managers of government sectors, heads of municipal branches, and a number of families of martyrs.
Dbeibeh stressed that his government’s goal is elections, and it is still waiting for the constitutional rule until the important national benefit takes place, and that “we are still up to work with the opponents together in order to bring Libya to safety.”
The President of the Council of Notables stressed that the city of Misrata is against fighting and wars, and will make all its social efforts to make stability a title for this stage until reaching the elections, stressing that the city will not allow any sedition within it.
Today, Tuesday, the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Economy and Trade, Suhail Boushiha, met with directors of departments and offices, the financial controller and heads of departments to follow up on the work accomplished during the first half of this year and prepare an action plan for the last quarter of this year and next year, and follow up on the organization of administrative and financial work and the decisions issued by the ministry and the extent Implementation by the regulatory authorities.
Boushiha stressed the need to implement instructions to complete the matching procedures and organize settlements for employees with the Ministry of Finance, emphasizing the importance of the ministry’s strategic objectives and the global economic repercussions on the national economy.
The Minister of Housing and Construction in the Government of National Unity, Abu Bakr Al-Ghawi, discussed today, Tuesday, in Cairo, with officials of the Egyptian consortium of Orascom Group, Hassan Allam Holding and Rowad Modern Engineering to implement the project to complete the third ring road.
Al-Ghawi identified complementary points to the contract, including the possibility of starting the implementation of the project in stages and according to the available financial allocations, taking into account the time period specified for it and its fragmentation, and in the case of agreement, an appendix to the original contract is prepared and supplemented with it that preserves the contractual terms and obligations of the two parties.
Whereas, the Council of Ministers of the Government of National Unity granted permission to the Ministry of Housing and Utilities Implementation Agency to contract to complete the third ring road in the city of Tripoli, given the importance and priority it represents for the capital, Tripoli and its residents.
The Director-General of the National Council for Economic and Social Development, Mahmoud Al-Futaisi, said today, Wednesday, that the National Council is not a research center, but rather it is a set of ideas for decision-making and the government takes it with a response from it.
Al-Futaisi stressed that the Audit Bureau is very important for the country and its annual reports have given a great impetus and coherent issues, and that the Development Council intersects with the Bureau to establish an organized work for the Libyan state with regard to the implementation body, and the Council is like a very important arm of this body for setting the policy.
The head of the Tripoli Audit Bureau, Khaled Shakshak, said, during the signing ceremony of a cooperation agreement that serves the public sector and concerns projects with the Economic and Social Development Council, that: “Today’s session is a meeting where several topics were discussed, the most important of which are: how can the Audit Bureau and the National Council for Economic Development within the framework of their terms of reference and how they can cooperate. The goal is to improve state institutions, as the Economic Development Board is concerned with drawing policies and putting them in plans.”
He added: “The Audit Bureau always focuses on its report, especially on the reports concerned with performance, and we always note that government institutions do not contain policies, plans, programs and goals. We are trying with the Council to push in the direction of having public policies at the state level, whether in the service and development sectors, where there are plans, programs and goals, followed by the Bureau, whose role comes to monitoring performance, and through this cooperation, there will be benefit for state institutions in general and for the Bureau in particular with regard to achieving oversight.”
He continued: “It was also agreed with the National Council for Economic Development to give it all the oversight reports on the performance of public institutions, which in turn help diagnose the problem in supporting these institutions in the goals of their plans and programs. Accordingly, an agreement was signed to facilitate interdepartmental communication between the Bureau and the Council, and there would be cooperation.”
As for the Bureau’s report for the year 2021, Shakshak said: “The report is in its final touches, and while the preparation of an article has been completed, it is now in the last stage, which is the printing stage, and the period does not exceed two weeks for the report to be published.”
The Governor of the Central Bank of Libya, Seddiq Al-Kabeer, met today, Wednesday, with the Assistant Undersecretary for Near Eastern Affairs, Barbara Leaf, in the presence of the US Ambassador to Libya, Richard Norland.
The meeting dealt with discussing joint cooperation with the American embassy and American institutions such as the United States Agency for Development in technical support programs for the Central Bank of Libya in many fields and the efforts of the Central Bank of Libya in developing disclosure and transparency.
Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh is expected to fly to Malta for talks with Prime Minister Robert Abela and will be joined by the governor of the Central Bank of Libya in Tripoli.
Government sources said that although there was no fixed agenda, Dbeibeh was expected to discuss the Libyan funds that were being held at the now-shuttered SataBank.
In 2019, the Times of Malta revealed how the authorities seized $1.1 billion in parallel Libyan currency printed in Russia, as two containers packed with the currency were discovered at Malta customs and have not yet been released.
In addition, a Maltese court had ordered Bank of Valletta to return more than 90 million euros linked to the late leader Muammar Gaddafi, and this case is still the subject of an appeal before the courts.
Today, Monday, the Minister of Oil and Gas, Mohamed Aoun, discussed with the Ambassador of the Republic of Malta in Libya, Charles Saliba, the Director of the General Administration of Technical Affairs, Mustafa Ben Eis, and the Director General of Quality and Health, Abdel Nasser Al-Amin.
Saliba suggested the possibility of inviting Aoun to visit the Republic of Malta to discuss the mechanisms of joint cooperation between the two countries, as well as study the possibilities of exploring the marine areas corresponding to the economic waters of both countries.
