Italian Foreign Minister Receives UN Envoy to Libya.

Rome, 8 August 2017(Lana) The Italian Government announced Tuesday that Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano was to meet the UN Special Envoy to Libya Ghassan Salama. The Rome meeting, according to AKI news agency, came in the aftermath of the first visit by the UN Envoy to Libya, which involved the capital Tripoli and the cities of Al Guba and Al Beidha where the Envoy met separately with President of the Presidency Council Fayez Al Serraj, the President of the High State Council Abdul Rahman Al Swehli and the Speaker of Parliament Ageela Saleh. The UN Support Mission in Libya UNSMIL said Salama stressed at meetings with Libyan parties that 'any solution should be a Libyan-led.' The UN, he added, is prepared to work with you, to build on the proposals you offer, and with national reconciliation effort to coordinate work to achieve consensus, overcome obstacles and restore peace and stability to the country. Salam said he was optimistic that Libya would get out of its crisis fairly shortly. =Lana=