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Egyptian diplomats and intelligence officials arrived in the Libyan capital of Tripoli on Sunday, Libyan officials said, the most senior Egyptian delegation to visit the western part of the conflict-stricken country in years.
The Egyptian delegation was headed by Ayman Badea, the deputy chief of the General Intelligence Service, Egypt’s version of the CIA. The delegation met with Fathi Bashagha, the powerful interior minister of the Tripoli-based government, as well as Emad Trapolsi, head of intelligence in western Libya.
Bashagha’s office said in a statement that they discussed “mutual security challenges and ways to enhance security cooperation.” They also discussed ways to support a U.N.-brokered cease-fire deal that Libya’s warring sides reached in October, the statement said.
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Libyan officials say Egyptian diplomats and intelligence officials have traveled to Libyaâs capital, Tripoli
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press
December 27, 2020, 6:06 PM
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The Associated Press
FILE - In this May 9, 2019 file photo, provided by Egypt s presidency media office, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, right, walks with military commander Khalifa Hifter, the head of the self-styled Libyan National Army, in Cairo, Egypt. Diplomats and intelligence officials from Egypt arrived in Libyaâs capital, Tripoli on Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020, the most senior Egyptian delegation to visit the western part of the north African country in years. Egypt views the instability in neighboring Libya as a national security threat and has backed Hifter who controls eastern and southern Libya, and attempted to seize Tripoli in a campaign collapsed earlier this year after Turkey s heav
Senior Egyptian security officials have visited the Libyan capital Tripoli for the first time in years and held talks with officials from the internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA), the Libyan interior ministry said.
The visit on Sunday was the first for senior Egyptian officials to Tripoli since 2014 when the country entered a civil war between the UN-brokered GNA in Tripoli and a rival administration in the east allied with renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar.
Tripoli’s government is backed by Turkey while Haftar and his self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) are backed by Russia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt.