CAIRO - 15 March 2020: Senior officials of the Egyptian and Libyan manpower ministries on Sunday discussed at the Libyan Embassy in Cairo, developing mechanisms to attract Egyptian workers to take part in the country's reconstruction process. The meeting also mulled activating electronic linkage between the two ministries to determine Libya's required specializations. A higher committee will be formed to supervise the process. This follows a meeting between both sides to implement a bilateral memorandum of cooperation signed in 2013 regarding “the use of Egyptian labor in Libya, and the implementation of electronic linkage between the Libyan Ministry of Labor and its Egyptian counterpart.”The embassy explained that the meeting came to follow up on the results of the meeting that took place in Cairo between representatives of the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Libyan Ministry of Labor’s delegation in the presence of the chargé d’affairs of the Libyan Embassy in Egypt, Tariq Al-Hawaij. It was also agreed to form a joint permanent committee between the two ministries for this purpose, and to arrange for an Egyptian technical delegation to visit Libya to complete the rest of the technical arrangements.

Source: Libya Today March 15, 2021 13:18 UTC