Rome, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias announced that during his meeting in Rome with his Italian counterpart, Luigi Di Maio, the need for a “French-Italian joint presidency of the Paris meeting” on Libya scheduled for November 12 current, according to the Italian agency AKI.
Dendias said, in a statement to reporters today, Monday, that this would “give a clear and frank indication for the withdrawal of foreign fighters and mercenaries, and also for the holding of elections” in Libya as scheduled on the twenty-fourth of next December.
And the French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, had announced earlier that “the President of the French Republic will host an international conference on Libya in Paris on November 12 in order to “give the final international momentum required to support the holding of elections at the end of the year, and to contribute to establishing favorable conditions.” to conduct it and to respect its results.
Le Drian indicated – as quoted by the French Foreign Ministry – that the conference, which “will be organized in close cooperation with the United Nations and will be co-chaired by France, Italy and Germany”, will be held according to “a broad format that includes the countries neighboring Libya for the first time, the Libyan transitional authorities and heads of state and government of countries”. which was invited to the two previous Berlin conferences, and will “adopt the Libyan plan aimed at withdrawing foreign forces and foreign mercenaries from Libyan territory, and will accompany its implementation, with a view to ending foreign interference.”
Source: Libyan News Agency