Returning for its second edition, LEES unites Libya’s entire energy sector – together with other critical areas of the economy – with the goal of creating and sustaining partnerships with global players for energy and economic growth. The North African nation represents Africa’s largest oil producer and is currently in the process of restabilizing its oil and gas sector, driving gas monetization, establishing a more diversified energy matrix and contributing to regional energy security. CNBC Arabia serves as the Arab world’s leading and only 24-hour Arabic language financial and business channel, providing real-time coverage of regional and international affairs from an Arab economic perspective. For all media and interview requests, please contact libya@energycapitalpower.com. Media applicants may register and accredit themselves to cover the conference by contacting libya@energycapitalpower.com.

The North African country Libya will cooperate with Bangladesh in preventing irregular migration and creating new job opportunities for workers from here. In addition, the visa process will be simplified through the best use of information technology in the recruitment process. As a result, Bangladeshi workers were going through acts of fraudulence and complications, he added. "The signing of the MoU creates a legal framework through which it will be possible to ensure the rights of Bangladeshi workers." He also drew attention of Mr Al-Rida to simplify the process of regularising Bangladeshi workers in Libya and to remove the complexity of remitting money through banking channels.

Reviewing and summarising developments in Libya’s aviation sector in 2023 and since the holding of the first Libya Aviation Forum and Expo in November 2022, Ben El Haj said it is now a matter of how many months until the EU air ban on Libya is lifted. Tripoli International Airport to reopen in mid-2024During the symposium, Tripoli based Libyan prime minister, Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba had said he expected Tripoli International Airport, currently under construction by Italian consortium Aeneas, to reopen in the middle of 2024. Four major airports will be audited by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in 2024. These will be Tripoli’s Mitiga, Misrata airport, Benghazi’s Benina airport and Tripoli International Airport – when its construction is completed. Raising standards to ICAO levelsAt the 2022 Libya Aviation Forum and Expo it was announced that Libya’s aviation sector is below the world average in the implementation of ICAO regulations.

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Libya's eastern-based parliament has ordered departure of the ambassadors of the countries that support the Israeli regime, which has brought the Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip under a hugely-deadly war. "We demand that the ambassadors of the states which support the Zionist entity in its crimes leave the territory [of Libya] immediately," the parliament said in a statement on Wednesday. The legislature also threatened to cut energy supplies to the countries in question. The Libyan parliament also singled out the United States, the UK, France, and Italy for criticism over their support for the Israeli regime amid the war. It said those states "support the Zionist entity in its crimes" in the Gaza Strip, while their leaders "lecture on human rights and the right of peoples to self-determination."

The Libyan parliament on Wednesday, 25 October, requested that ambassadors from countries that “support” Israel in its conflict with Hamas in Gaza leave the country, AFP reports. Since 7 October 2023 when Hamas militants began an onslaught that Israeli sources said killed 1,400 civilians, Israel has been bombing the Gaza Strip. The Health Ministry in Gaza said that over 6,500 Palestinians were killed as a result of Israeli strikes. “We demand that the ambassadors of the states which support the Zionist entity (Israel) in its crimes leave the territory (of Libya) immediately,” the statement read. Earlier, Moussa Mahamat, the chairperson of the African Union Commission, said that Israel committed a “war crime” after the fatal attack on the Gaza Strip hospital.

The European Union Boarder Assistance Mission (EUBAM) and Libya’s Border Guard discuss held talks today on joint cooperation between the European Union and Libya in support of the surveillance and security of border areas, starting from the Libyan-Tunisian border crossing of Ras Jedir. According to EUBAM, the meeting was between the Head of EUBAM in Libya, Natalina Cea, and the commander of the Border Guard at the Ministry of the Interior of the Government of National Unity, Colonel Muhammad Al Marhan. “Together, we aim to improve cross-border fluidity and security in the future”, EUBAM stated via X (formerly Twitter).

Malta remains committed to the Chinese government’s Belt and Road initiative despite other European countries considering pulling out of the agreement. The One Belt One Road Initiative, now called the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is an ambitious yet controversial undertaking to boost connectivity and trade across the world with Chinese money and know-how in infrastructure development. In 2018, Malta was among the first European countries to sign an agreement with China to partner with the country to implement its President’s vision of the ‘One Belt One Road’ project. “Unlike some of the other 17 EU countries that signed up to Belt and Road Initiative, Malta thus far did not enter in any agreements to implement projects under this initiative,” the ministry said. Italy is the only G-7 nation to have officially endorsed Chinese President Xi Jinping’s signature foreign policy initiative.

The Audit Bureau Wednesday said Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah spent 40.5 million dinars from the 2022 budget to purchase vehicles for his ministers, deputy ministers, and officials at his office. According to the report, PM Dabaiba approved the ownership of 27 modern 2021 cars for his government ministers immediately after purchasing them, violating the legislation and laws regulating the purchase and use of public-owned cars. The report said the Ministry of Planning managed to pass the deal through manipulation of procedure. To cover the financial gaps, the Ministry of Planning, "with the consent of the PM," transferred the budget from heading III of the 2021 financial year that was meant for development, the bureau indicated. It may be recalled that the Audit Bureau monitored in its annual report for the year 2021 the purchase of 25 luxury cars for the PM's motorcade with a value exceeding 21 million dinars without being registered under the Cabinet Office's ownership.

The Libyan parliament on Wednesday demanded the departure of ambassadors from countries that "support" Israel as it fights Hamas in Gaza, taking specific aim at the United States, Britain, France and Italy. Israel has been bombarding the Gaza Strip since October 7, when Hamas militants launched an attack that Israeli officials say has killed 1,400 people, mostly civilians. "We demand that the ambassadors of the states which support the Zionist entity (Israel) in its crimes leave the territory (of Libya) immediately," the statement said. The parliament denounced "in the strongest terms" the actions of "the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Italy". It said these nations "support the Zionist entity in its crimes" in the Gaza Strip, while their leaders "lecture on human rights and the right of peoples to self-determination".

The demarcation of maritime borders constitutes a point of fundamental regional disagreement with Türkiye on the one hand and Greece, Cyprus, and Egypt on the other. Signs of the disagreement appeared since the signing of a maritime border agreement between the Tripoli government and Türkiye in 2019. Observers believe this path will continue, especially after the unity government announced it would establish a maritime zone adjacent to its borders in the Mediterranean. The new Libyan decision expands the authority of maritime borders from 12 to 24 nautical miles. The demarcation of the Libyan borders in the East Med expands the controversy over the conflict over energy sources in the region.

On Wednesday the Attorney General’s Office called for the enforcement of 8,676 old arrest warrants that have not been carried out. Specifically, it called for the superiors of 1,632 convicted persons working for the Ministry of Interior / it’s affiliates to implement these arrest warrants. The Attorney General’s Office said this comes as part of its measures aimed at strengthening the penal policy. The Attorney General’s Office said the unit took judicial and administrative measures to ensure the implementation of court rulings convicting 8,676 convicts. Subsequently, it instructed their superiors to implement the arrest warrants issued against them.

New gas field developments will align with Libya's move to boost gas production and exports, Khalifa Rajab Abdulsadek, responsible for exploration, development and planning on the NOC board, said on the sidelines of an energy summit in Ravenna, Italy. “It’s good to hear that Libya has such big, ambitious targets” as “Europe and Italy are starving for gas,” said Davide Tabarelli, president of Nomisma Energia. Eni is Libya’s largest foreign gas producer and co-owner with NOC of the 520km Greenstream pipeline – the longest subsea pipeline in the Mediterranean Sea – which connects Libyan gas fields with the Italian gas market. “We're working hard with Eni and other European strategic partners to fill up pipelines and maximising gas exports,” said Abdulsadek. Greenstream, Libya's only gas pipeline, has been running below capacity over the past few years.

Libya’s parliament, the House of Representatives (HoR), based in eastern Libya, yesterday called on the eastern based Libyan government (a government unrecognised by most of the international community) to shut oil and gas exports to Western countries if the Zionist genocidal war in Gaza, Palestine, does not stop. The HoR also called for the immediate expulsion of the Ambassadors of the USA, UK, France, Germany and Italy from Libya as a result of the Gaza-Israeli war.