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Tunisia restores diplomatic representation to Libya.
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Tunis, 02.04.2015(Lana) Tunisian Minister of Foreign Affairs , Al-Tyab Al-Bakouish confirmed that the Tunisian government began to lift gradually diplomatic representation in Libya due to the circumstances undergone by the country. The Tunisian news agency quoted Al-Bakouish as saying at a press conference Thursday announcing the ministry's programme. He said we decided to restore consular representation in both Tripoli and Benghazi to look after Tunisian interests in Libya estimated at 120,000 in Western part of Libya and 20,000 in eastern part of Libya. =... Read more
Tunis warns East Libya government and rejects use of its airspace.
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Al-Qasaba, 02.04.2015 (Lana) Minister of Foreign Affairs in Tunisia, Al-Tyab Al-Bakouish underlined that his country warned the government of eastern Libya about its rejection of using its airspace for fighting. This was in response to the violation of Tunisia airspace by Hafter warplanes Wednesday evening. Bakouish said he assigned minister of state for Arab affairs to summon the east of Libyan envoy to Tunis to warn and underscore Tunisia's rejection of using its airspace in fighting, according to Tunisia news agency. The Tunisian minister explained at a press... Read more
Audit Office releases a report verifying financial figures mentioned in Head of government statement.
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Tripoli, 02.04.2015 (Lana)Audit Office released a detailed report verifying financial figures mentioned in Head of government statement about the financial state of the country. The report disclosed that figures mentioned by the government cannot be used by the public treasury to finance the government. It noted that the state is burdened with contractual obligations concluded by the previous governments that exceed 105 billion Libyan dinars. It pointed out that unstudied government expenditure in the past years burdened the Central bank of Libya reducing its foreign... Read more
43rd round of Tripoli International Fair opened.
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Tripoli, 02.04.2015(Lana) 43rd round of Tripoli International Fair opened Thursday with the participation of 500 local firms and companies as well as several Arab and International companies. Second deputy prime minister declared the round open in the presence of several GNC members, ministers of economy, tourism, martyrs and missing persons, social affairs, and deputy ministers for economy and Information and acting mayor of Tripoli, and heads of diplomatic missions accredited to Libya. Director of the fair, Salah Addeen Hamaza praised the participants in the opening... Read more
GNC Works on Draft Law for Return of Displaced Libyans.
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Tripoli, 2 April 2105(Lana) The Members of the General National Congress have prepared a draft law on return of displaced Libyans, to be put for discussion at the next GNC session. The member of the GNC Political Committee Mansour Al Hisadi said 'the draft law stipulates for a fair trial, return of all Libyans who are not involved in crimes, and payment of all previous salaries and dues of the displaced. The draft law also calls for an un-conditional return of all displaced women, children and the elderly. =... Read more