GNA Minister of Transport Announces Re-opening of Mi'tiga Inter.

Airport. Tripoli, 29 October 2019(Lana) GNA Ministers of Transport and the Interior, Flanked with the UN Special Envoy to Libya, the Transport Ministry Undersecretary, the Director of Airports and some aviation experts have toured Mi'tiga Inter. Airport, to ensure that it was ready for resumption of flights locally and abroad. The UN Special Envoy to Libya Ghasan Salama said the measures taken by the Ministry of Transport and the Airports Authority were good enough to enable the facility to resume operation. Salama said 'from the tour that we had inside the airport it was clear that the airport was a civilian facility overall. The UN will open a special station at the airport for its diplomats and diplomats in general and to secure repatriation flights for migrants who chose to voluntarily return to their homelands. The GNA Minister of Transport Milad Ma'atoug said at the press conference, after the airport tour, 'the facility is now open to aviation and resumption of flights is up to airline companies to decide when they will resume their flights. Resumption of flights needs coordination between security apparatus, ground services and the operating companies. =Lana=