2023-08-28 21:52:36
Najla Mangoush, a lawyer specializing in conflict mediation, was the first woman in Libyan history to hold the post of foreign minister. Since her appointment in March 2021, she had been a target of the Conservatives. RYAD KRAMDI/AFP
Suspended, the head of diplomacy of the government of Tripoli was forced to leave the country on the sly.
Tunis and Tel Aviv
A diplomatic fiasco: this is how the opposition and most of the Israeli media took stock on Monday of the announcement of the meeting in Rome last week between Eli Cohen, the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, and her Libyan counterpart Najla Mangoush, who caused the dismissal of the latter.
Very proud to have thus established contact with the representative of a country which had refused until now to establish any diplomatic relations with the Jewish State, Eli Cohen published a press release in English and especially in Arabic to give satisfaction. The text, very optimistic, underlines that this meeting “unpublished“constitutes”a first step in relations between the two countries. Libya’s size and strategic location offer a huge opportunity for the State of Israel“. In other words, the minister was already dreaming of Libya’s participation in the Abraham Accords concluded in 2020 by Israel, the United Arab Emirates…
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