A “very positive” meeting was held in Tripoli between representatives of the Italian consortium Enes and the Minister of Transport in the Libyan National Unity Government, Mohammed Al-Shahoubi, in the presence of Italian Ambassador Giuseppe Buccino. Buccino said, in a tweet on his official account on Twitter, that the talks focused on « the expected resumption of reconstruction work at Tripoli International Airport. »

The international airport in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, was closed in the summer of 2014 after it was damaged in clashes between rival militias. The project cost is about 80 million euros to build two terminals, one national and the other international, with all airport facilities that allow the opening of this airport. The work assigned to the Italian Enes consortium was suspended several times due to the armed conflict that made the airport a front line from April 2019 to June 2020. The resumption of the project, for which letters of credit were obtained from the Central Bank of Libya, is one of the most tangible results of Italian economic diplomacy and frequent visits to Libya by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Mayo, and the mission of Prime Minister Mario Draghi to Tripoli on 6 April 2021.

Adapted from Nova News Agency