The 5+5 Joint Military Commission (JMC) said Sunday Sirte was ready to host the session of the House of Representatives (HoR) to grant confidence to the Government of National Unity (GNU).
The JMC said in a statement, responding to HoR Speaker Aqila Saleh's request for them to secure the session in Sirte on March 08, that all members of the JMC agreed that Sirte was ready and secure for the confidence-granting session of the HoR.
A UN panel of experts' report on Libya, cited by Agence France Press (AFP) Sunday, revealed that at least three participants in UN-led Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) were bribed for votes.
The UN experts' report is set to be presented to the Security Council in March, and it found that during the Tunisia-held LPDF talks, two participants “offered bribes of between $150,000 to $200,000 to at least three LPDF participants if they committed to vote for Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah as Prime Minister.”
The Inter-Parliamentary Union called for unveiling investigation results of the east-based Abdullah Al-Thinni government about the abduction of female House of Representatives' member, Siham Sirgiwa.
The Inter-Parliamentary Union expressed disappointment at the lack of cooperation by the House of Representatives (HoR) in Sirgiwa's case, adding that such a conduct cast doubt at the HoR's impartiality.
The General Authority for Tourism on Saturday organized a celebration to mark the National Heritage Day, under the slogan "Mastering a handiwork is better than inheriting a fortune".
The ceremony, which was held at the authority’s theater, was attended by the President of the General Authority for Tourism, Khaider Malik, besides officials and experts from the field of education, culture, science, arts, and crafts.
The Head of the Scientific Advisory Committee for Combating Coronavirus, Khalifa Al-Bakoush has confirmed that the first batch of the Covid-19 vaccine will arrive within the next few weeks.
In a joint press conference with the Director of the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC), Al-Bakoush said that a total of 12 million doses of coronavirus vaccine will be delivered to Libya by the end of March. "We have contracted four companies to import the vaccines," he added.
