Greece opened a consulate on Tuesday in Libya’s second largest city of Benghazi, as European countries sought to renew their diplomatic footprint inside the north African country. Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias announced the move during a visit to Benghazi, after Athens revealed the reopening of its embassy in Tripoli last week during a trip to the Libyan capital by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. He was speaking alongside Hussein Qatrani, one of the Deputy Prime Ministers of Libya’s Government of National Unity. Libya's interim government is supposed to pave the way for elections to be held in December. But Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday underlined his support for the deal after meeting Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah.

Source: Libya Today April 13, 2021 12:43 UTC