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The Supreme Committee to Combat Coronavirus Approves the Resumption of Domestic and International Air Navigation Traffic at Libyan Airports.
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Tripoli, October 18, 2020 (LANA) - The Supreme Committee to Combat Coronavirus announced its agreement to resume domestic and international air navigation traffic at Libyan airports. This approval came during the committee's meeting on Saturday with airport officials, airlines and handling companies. The committee stressed that the appeal process will be in accordance with the requirements approved by the medical advisory committee, with additional measures that would regulate work at airports and take precautionary measures to combat the Corona. ... Read more
German Ambassador to Libya Welcomes Resumption of UNHCR Work in Libya.
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Berlin, 18 October 2020(Lana) German Ambassador to Libya Oliver Owcza has welcomed resumption by the UNHCR of flights to transport refugees in Libya which, he said, would bring about solutions to the most vulnerable, expressing German support for the effort. The UN High Commissioner for Refugee office in Libya has moved a group of 153 refugees and asylum seekers of the most vulnerable from Libya to a transit point in Niger. The transportation of the refugees marked a resumption of evacuation operations the UN is mounting in Libya after a 7 month interruption because of... Read more
GNA Minister of Interior Meets Members of 'Standing Orders' Committee.
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Tripoli, 15 October 2020(Lana) GNA Interior Minister Fathi Pashagha has had a meeting with the Standing Orders Committee, which reviewed, at the meeting, a number of standing orders for components of the Interior Ministry. According to the Ministry's Communication Office the meeting which was held at the Interior Ministry headquarters focused on standing orders for the Ministry's components which evolve on the daily activities of Ministry's staff including administrative and executive engagements and on the field activities and administrative and financial orders. =... Read more
Mayors of Western Libyan Municipalities Stress Need to Speed up Parliamentary Elections on Constitutional Basis.
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Tripoli, 15 October 2020(Lana) Mayors of the western Libyan Municipalities and the Gabal 'mountain' region have called for elections to be held promptly on constitutional basis. The mayors said, at a meeting held here and attended by Mohamed Emary Zayed Member of Presidency Council and representatives of Workers Union and civil society organisations that they put the interests of homeland first and support the President of HNEC statements that parliamentary elections can be held within 120 days on constitutional platform based on the constitutional declaration. the... Read more
The United Nations warns of a possible humanitarian catastrophe in Libya in the event of the outbreak of military operations in Sirte.
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Tripoli, 15 October 2020 (LANA) - The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has expressed concern about the fragile situation and the potential humanitarian catastrophe in Libya in the event that the current escalation and mobilization around Sirte develops into military operations. United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric, citing the UN office, said that the lives of more than 125,000 people in and around Sirte are in great danger. Dujarric indicated, in the daily press conference, that the number of cases of Covid-19 disease has increased... Read more