Libya.. Army Chief of Staff in Tripoli meets his counterpart Haftar's forces

Libyan sources stated that the Chief of General Staff, Lieutenant General Muhammad al-Haddad, in Tripoli, held a meeting with Abdel Razek al-Nadori, Chief of Staff of Khalifa Haftar's forces, to discuss a number of issues, in the presence of a number of military leaders.

The Military Information Office of the Ministry of Defense of the Libyan Government of National Unity stated that the meeting discussed the continuation of the measures that began in order to unify the military institution, and the latest results of the work of the joint military committee in the cease-fire and the maintenance of peace and security.

The spokesman for the Government of National Unity, Muhammad Hammouda, said that the government's vision is clear on ways to end the Libyan crisis, by unifying the military institution, and holding parliamentary and presidential elections in accordance with the constitution.

Hammouda added that the meeting of the Joint Military Committee, which was held in Tripoli, is a regular meeting that did not come under the coordination of the Prime Minister and he did not participate in it.

2/ The meeting of these two chiefs of staff comes within the discussions of the military track of the crisis, sponsored by the United Nations to unify the military institution, and although the Dabaiba government is in control of the capital, Tripoli, where the center of money and decision-making is, it has nothing to do with this meeting, and there was no representative of the Ministry of Defense in this meeting. or his ceremony

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For its part, the National Oil Corporation in Libya announced the readiness of the ports of Sidra, Brega, Ras Lanuf and Zueitina in the oil crescent region in the east of the country to export quantities of crude oil after lifting the state of force majeure on the ports and oil fields in the country.

The corporation said that an oil tanker will arrive on July 20 at Zueitina port to load one million barrels of crude oil, while Brega port will receive another oil tanker to load 600,000 barrels of oil.

It stated that other oil tankers will arrive at the port of Sidra and Ras Lanuf to load other quantities of crude oil.