The ambassador of the United Kingdom (UK) Nicholas Hopton expressed his country's desire for investments in Libya by cooperating between the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) and British energy companies.
Hopton visited the Chairman of the NOC, Mustafa Sanallah, on Thursday at the headquarters in Tripoli ahead of his departure from Libya as his tenure as ambassador ended.
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) called in a statement Wednesday on all parties in Libya to refrain from any mobilization or deployment of security elements and troops that may be perceived as an escalation and may undermine the implementation of the 23 October 2020 ceasefire agreement, urging all parties to respect the lines of demarcation as they were at the time of the signing of the ceasefire agreement.
The Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Al-Mangoush called Thursday on her Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov to help Libya in its quest to unify the military institution, adding in a joint conference in Moscow, which she visited to carry out bilateral discussions, that Russia had an active role in its serious stance and positive readiness to review a mechanism for the departure of foreign forces and mercenaries from Libya.