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TRIPOLI – From international isolation to the line of foreign dignitaries waiting to be received. A new wind is definitely blowing in Libya. It had been years since there had been so many official visits concentrated in such a few days. Looking forward to receiving Mario Draghi in his office on Tuesday morning, the neopremier Abdul Hamid Dbeibah saw the President of the European Council, Charles Michel (above, photo Afp). In the last two weeks he had met Luigi Di Maio twice, the second together with the French and German foreign ministers. In the next few hours he will be engaged in the reopening ceremony of the embassies French, Maltese (accompanied by the corresponding premier) and then Greek on Tuesday afternoon, when Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will in turn be in Tripoli.
We intend to work with the new government to support it and contribute to the internal process of national reconciliation, Michel said after meeting with Dbeibah. A confirmation of the European commitment, which sees the strengthening of the Libyan central government as an indispensable step to ensure the fight against illegal immigration and the stabilization of the region. In the coming days, Europe will collaborate with the UN for among other things, facilitate the expulsion of the approximately 20,000 foreign mercenaries (mostly Russians and Syrians sent from Ankara) operating in Libya.
The prospect of the possibility of returning to operate also economically in the country it pushes potential partners to intensify a sort of solidarity competition, aimed, among other things, at helping local health authorities in the fight against Covid, which is particularly widespread here. In the last few hours the Italian Cooperation has brought a ship carrying over 10 tons of medical-sanitary material to the port of Tripoli, including a million masks and emergency kits. Meanwhile, Moscow is also not watching. Dbeibah himself announces via twitter that he has managed to get around 100,000 doses of Sputnik V vaccines. The World Health Organization points out that the pandemic records at least 1,000 new cases a day. But hospitals are not equipped to care for the seriously ill.
April 4, 2021 (change April 5, 2021 | 07:46)
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