Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibeh will make his first visit to Turkey on Monday since taking office last month, the Turkish presidency confirmed on Sunday, reported Reuters.
Dbeibah will be accompanied by a delegation of 14 other ministers and the head of the Libyan armed forces.
According to Turkey’s presidency, Dbeibeh will hold a two-day visit upon President Tayyip Erdogan’s invitation. It added that the Libyan prime minister and Erdogan would chair the first meeting of the Turkey-Libya High-Level Strategic Cooperation Council in Ankara.
“At the Council Meeting to be held with the participation of relevant ministers, all aspects of Turkey-Libya relations, which have deeply-rooted, historic ties, will be discussed, steps that can be taken to further improve cooperation will be evaluated,” the statement said.
It added that the two leaders would discuss cooperation on energy and health, along with the resumption of projects by Turkish companies that were stopped over the war.
The Turkey government has already said that Turkish firms would take an active role in rebuilding the war-torn country.
Libya’s new unity government came into power on March 15, completing a smooth transition of power after a decade of instability and violent chaos.
Dbeibah was selected through an UN-backed inter-Libyan dialogue to lead the country to national elections scheduled for December 2021.
His government replaces two rival administrations based in Tripoli and the country’s east, led by military general Khalifa Haftar, whose forces tried but failed to seize the capital in an offensive launched in 2019.
The rival Libyan parties gave their backing to the new administration, adding to tentative hopes that the country can exit a decade of crisis.
Turkey had supported the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) against the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA), which was backed by Russia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and France.
