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Turkey, Libya to discuss possible steps to expand cooperation

by DAILY SABAH

ANKARA Mar 26, 2021 - 12:56 pm GMT+3
Head of Libya's Presidential Council Mohamed Menfi visits French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace, Paris, France, March 23, 2021. (AA Photo)
Head of Libya's Presidential Council Mohamed Menfi visits French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace, Paris, France, March 23, 2021. (AA Photo)
by DAILY SABAH Mar 26, 2021 12:56 pm

The chairperson of Libya's Presidential Council, Mohammad Younes Menfi, will pay a visit to Turkey on Friday at the invitation of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to discuss bilateral relations as well as possible steps to expand cooperation.

During Menfi's first visit to Turkey after taking office, all aspects of developing deep-rooted relations between Turkey and Libya will be reviewed, Turkey's Communications Directorate said Thursday.

The talks will also focus on steps to further develop cooperation between the two sides, bilateral relations and current regional and international issues.

Menfi's visit comes after he met with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris earlier this week.

Libya's new unity government was sworn in on March 15 from two warring administrations that had ruled the eastern and western regions of Libya, completing a smooth transition of power after a decade of violent chaos.

Turkey had backed the Tripoli-based internationally-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) against putschist Gen. Khalifa Haftar's eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA), which was supported by Russia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and France.

Turkey has previously said that Turkish firms would take an active role in rebuilding the war-torn country. New Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah has said economic deals the GNA had struck with Turkey should remain and that Libya will keep its distinguished ties with Ankara.

In November 2019, Turkey and Libya signed a maritime delimitation deal that provided a legal framework to prevent any fait accompli by regional states. Accordingly, the attempts by the Greek government to appropriate huge parts of Libya's continental shelf, when a political crisis hit the North African country in 2011, were averted.

The agreement also confirmed that Turkey and Libya are maritime neighbors. The delimitation starts from Fethiye-Marmaris-Kaş on Turkey’s southwestern coast and extends to the Derna-Tobruk-Bordia coastline of Libya.

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