Di Maio in Libya to reactivate the Gaddafi-Berlusconi agreement of 2008

(by Andrea Pinto) Highway of Peace e International airport, these are the two major projects that were the basis of the 2008 agreement between Berlusconi and Gaddafi. The Foreign Minister also understood this, Luigi Di Maio who flew to Libya. The opportunity is greedy since with the ceasefire, the general Kalifa Haftar he was placed in the most remote corner of the political scene and with him also France which supported him. On the other hand, Italy has always supported the president of the Government of National Accord Fayez al Serrai supported by the UN. Now that Haftar and France are out of the game it would be shortsighted not to support an agreement that was in fact only suspended by the war. The foreign minister, reports Corriere della Sera, was accompanied by the undersecretary Manlio Di Stefano, appointed head of the Italian-Libyan Commission set up to promote economic and commercial relations between the two countries.

At least one hundred Italian companies have had to stop their activities in LIbia following the Arab Spring. Di Maio therefore wants to resume collaboration by bringing those one hundred companies back to full capacity, also hoping to be able to obtain reassurance on the management of migrant departures. 

Libya, Di Maio said, was our second trading partner on the African continent and our first supplier in 2019. In the first two months of 2020, our exports increased by 32% compared to the same period in 2019. 

The Corriere also reports that the Ministry of Transport is reviewing the accounts and the Treasury is preparing for the allocations in the budget. There are many companies that boast credits for works started and never finished due to the war. Let's talk about Eni, Leonardo, We Build and the Aeneas Consortium. While Telecom Italia Sparkle collaborates with Libyan International Telecom Co. (LITC) and guarantees connections between the two countries thanks to the Tripoli-Mazara del Vallo cable. 

Di Maio met with al Sarraj, the president of parliament Saleh and the Libyan foreign minister Syala. On the sidelines of the institutional meetings, he also met the head of Noc, the National Oil Corporation of the North African country, whose main partner is the Italian Eni.

 

Di Maio in Libya to reactivate the Gaddafi-Berlusconi agreement of 2008

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