The Prime Minister of the Libyan National Unity Government, Abdel Hamid Dabaiba, is holding talks with senior officials in Morocco on bilateral relations and activating the Arab Maghreb Union.

On Sunday, Dabaiba began a visit to the Moroccan capital, Rabat, which is the first of its kind to the Kingdom, since he took power last March.

The Libyan Prime Minister expressed his aspiration to resume the work of the joint higher committee with Morocco, which has been suspended since 2009.

This came in a press conference in Rabat with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita.

Dabaiba said he is looking forward to holding the ninth meeting of the joint higher committee with Morocco, which has not met since 2009.

He described the Moroccan-Libyan relations as strong and distinguished.

He praised the Kingdom's efforts to unify Libya's institutions and its political and security stability.

Previously, Morocco hosted 5 rounds of the Libyan dialogue, during which an agreement was reached on the mechanism for assuming sovereign positions.

The Libyan Prime Minister said that his visit to Morocco comes to communicate in order to enhance and develop cooperation in all fields.

It is noteworthy that this visit comes days after Rabat boycotted the Berlin International Conference on Libya, on Wednesday, despite its official invitation to participate in it, due to diplomatic differences between Rabat and Berlin.

In a related context, Dabaiba stressed the necessity of convening the joint consular committee between Libya and Morocco to facilitate visas, residency, study and other areas.

Maghreb

The Libyan Prime Minister stressed the need to activate the Arab Maghreb Union and to overcome the difficulties it is facing.

This union was established in the city of Marrakesh, Morocco, in 1989, and includes 5 countries in the western part of the Arab world, namely Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and Mauritania.

Since its establishment, the union has faced obstacles to activate its structures and achieve Maghreb unity, especially due to internal disputes, as no summit has been held at the level of its leaders since the 1994 summit in Tunisia.

For his part, Bourita said that the visit of Dabaiba, and before him the Speaker of Parliament, Aguila Saleh, comes at a time witnessing the preparation of the Libyan elections, and a diplomatic movement to keep pace with this stage.

And last March, an elected transitional authority, comprising a government of national unity and a presidential council, assumed its duties to lead Libya to parliamentary and presidential elections on December 24.

Bourita made it clear that his country wants to keep pace with the efforts of the Libyan people and institutions to prepare for these important milestones.

He added that Morocco does not think about what it will get from Libya at the current stage, "but puts itself at the disposal of the Libyans to help them get out of the difficult stage."