UN envoy to Libya meets officials in Benghazi

Libya:The United Nations envoy to Libya Ghassan Salame on Thursday visited the eastern port city of Benghazi for meetings with several officials, the UN mission to the country, UNSMIL tweeted on Thursday.

“Ghassan Salame arrived today in Benghazi where he will hold several meetings with a number of officials,” read the tweet.

Salame’s visit to Benghazi comes after he held fresh talks in Tripoli on Wednesday with the president of Libya’s High Council of State advisory body, Abdulrahman Swehli, which centred on the stalled reconciliation process between the country’s rival political factions.

Salame had an earlier meeting with Swehli on February 20.

—IANS