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SOS Mediterranean Announces Rescue of 407 in the Mediterranean in 72 Hours.
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Palermo, 28 January 2020(Lana) Humanitarian Organisation 'SOS Mediterranean' announced that it has rescued 407 in 24 hours in the Mediterranean Sea. the organisation said it responded to an SOS from 184 who were on two rubber dinghies last night, the rescue operation was carried out by the ship 'Ocean Viking', while in the previous day 102 were saved 80 nautical miles off the Libyan coast and 82 in the Maltese region. =... Read more
Committee for Solidarity With Libyan People Set Up in Algeria.
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Algiers, 28 January 2020(Lana) A committee for Solidarity with the Libyan People was announced to have been set up in Algeria, involving popular and historic leaderships, politicians, professors and men of letters. The committee launched at the Arab Maghreb Union headquarters in Algiers on Sunday aims to build bridges of liaison and solidarity with the people of Libya, bridge the gap between Libyan rivals and bring about national reconciliation among the Libyan people, according to a statement issued by the committee. The Committee said it takes guidance from Algerian-... Read more
Merkel stresses that Europe has an interest in preventing the escalation of the conflict in Libya.
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Davos, Switzerland, 25.01.2020 - Lana - German Chancellor 'Angela Merkel' stressed that Europe has an interest in preventing the escalation of the conflict in Libya as long as this may unleash a wave of asylum similar to what happened during the conflict in Syria. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Merkel cautioned against hurrying to cancel the nuclear deal with Iran, saying it would be a mistake to abandon the "defective" agreement before concluding another agreement better than it. She added that Europe's mistake regarding the 2015 refugee crisis is not that... Read more
Chad's Foreign Minister: The spread of arms and the worsening situation in the Sahel have been caused by the Libyan crisis.
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Algeria, 25.01.2020 - Lana - Chad's Foreign Minister, 'Mohamed Sherif El-Zein', declared that the Libyan crisis is one of the reasons for the worsening situation in the Sahel region, due to the proliferation of weapons, which facilitates the spread of terrorist groups. "In addition to Libya, the neighboring countries of Libya are the first concerned with the Libyan crisis," the Russian news agency, Sputnik, quoted "Al-Zain" as saying in a speech during the start of the foreign ministers' conference of the countries neighboring Libya in the Algerian capital, Thursday. Adding ... Read more
The German chancellor and the Chinese president discuss implementing the outputs of the Berlin conference on Libya.
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Berlin, 25.01.2020 - Lana - The German Cabinet announced that the German Chancellor 'Angela Merkel' and Chinese President 'Xi Jinping' discussed the implementation of the results of the Berlin Conference on Libya, and Beijing promised for continued support. The German Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the two sides discussed the implementation of the outputs of the results of the Berlin conference on Libya held on the 19th of January, stressing that the Chinese President promised the German chancellor to continue to support the implementation of these outputs in order... Read more