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Al Khoja Receives National Reconciliation Council Initiative Regarding Events in the Oil Crescent.
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Tripoli, 15 March 2017(Lana) The Chairman of the Higher Reconciliation Council has launched a council initiative regarding the current events in the oil crescent region to encourage all parties to peace and to renounce bloodshed and war. The initiative included inviting all warring factions to an immediate ceasefire and cessation of hostilities in the oil crescent region and to give way for political and social consultations aimed at ending the conflict and restoring peace and stability. The Chairman of the National Reconciliation Council handed over the draft to the GNA... Read more
Sweihli Meets Qatar Foreign Minister.
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Doha, 14 March 2017(Lana) The President of the High State Council Abdul Rahman Al Sweihli discussed in Doha on Monday with the Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohamed Bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani issues of common interest to Libya and Qatar. The meeting also dealt with the situation in Libya and ways of making Libya stay away from regional and foreign struggle, putting in place a mechanism for expanding the scope of consensus to reach a political solution as well as preventing foreign intervention. The Qatari Minister renewed his country's support for the Political Agreement... Read more
Tripoli Security Directorate Says it Launched Operation to Purge Hai Al Andalus From Outlaws.
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Tripoli, 14 March 2017(Lana) The Tripoli Security Directorate and the supporting force have announced that they had launched an operation to purge the area of Greater Hai Al Andalus in Tripoli from outlaws. In a statement, a copy of which was obtained by Lana on Tuesday, the Directorate said it would not stop until the whole area was purged from the abusers, the frivolous and trouble makers obstructing the work of Police stations, rescue and traffic Policemen, and to ensure that security was established in the area. It appealed to the inhabitants of the afor-said area to... Read more
Lamamra Urges for International Assistance to Help Libya Get out of its Crisis Peacefully.
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Brussels, 14 March 2017(Lana) Algerian Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Minister Ramtan Lamamra on Monday urged the international community to assume a full role to assist Libyans resolve their crisis peacefully. The international community should work within a common agenda 'to support Libyans and to encourage them reach a Libyan-Libyan consensus that could end the crisis peacefully and promote national reconciliation among the Libyan factions, Lamamra told reporters on the sidelines of the EU Algeria High Level Partnership Council in Brussels. He... Read more
Minister of Interior Head of EUBAM in Libya.
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Tripoli, 13 March 2017(Lana) The GNA Minister of Interior Al Aref Al Khoja held a meeting here on Monday with the Head of the EU Mission to Libya Bettina Muscheidt. Several security-related issues, including assisting the Libyan competent Interior Ministry authorities on establishment of peace and stability in the country. Al Khoja said he was delighted by the meeting, expressing the Ministry's readiness to work with the mission to achieve common goals. =... Read more