The Chargé d’Affaires of the United States Embassy in Libya, “Jeremy Brent,” expressed his happiness at meeting with the First Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, “Fawzi Al-Nuwairi,” and the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Committee of the House, “Youssef Al-Aqouri,” describing the dialogue he conducted with the two sides. With fruitful dialogue.
‘Brent’ said in a tweet published by the US Embassy in Libya on its page on the X platform: ‘We had a fruitful dialogue about the best ways to support the mediation efforts undertaken by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Batili, to lay the foundation for successful elections and how to strengthen bilateral relations between the United States and Libya”.
Source: Libyan News Agency
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry asserted the importance of reforming the international governance to address geopolitics crises and priorities of sustainable development.
The foreign minister’s remarks were made while participating in a session themed, “Reforming Global Governance” on the sidelines of G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Rio de Janeiro city in Brazil on Thursday 22/2/2024.
Spokesman for the Foreign Ministry Ahmed Abu Zeid said that Shoukry pointed out to challenges facing developing countries that would require reform of global governance to deal with geopolitics crises and priorities of sustainable development, topped by poverty.
Shoukry said the world financial system must be reformed in a perspective that is addressing climate change issues as being a complementary part and not replacing the achievement of sustainable development.
The reform should aim to scale up finance and easily get it and rely on grants and soft funding tools, he mentioned.
Developing countries should deal with debt
burden through the establishment of comprehensive and active mechanisms, he said.
He pointed out to the possibility of boosting international cooperation in debt-for-nature swaps.
Shoukry highlighted a number of worrying indexes at the level of climate change and pointed out to a growing gap in climate financing for adaptation and expansion in exploration and fossil fuel production, especially coal.
Source: State Information Service Egypt