On Wednesday, the Head of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Libya, Debbie Hurst and Deputy Head, Ahmed Al-Ghazali met with the Chairman of the Benghazi Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Agriculture, Munim Al-Saiti and Mayor Saqr Bojwari.
They met to examine “ways to improve their combined cooperation, as well as ways to get around barriers to trade and joint investment.”
Bojwari welcomed the two communities and noted his desire to encourage collaborative efforts. As well as offering to help draw in American investments.
Al-Ghazali reaffirmed the organization’s interest in travelling to Libya, and visiting Benghazi due to its economic importance.
He said that the meeting “was successful because the participants genuinely wanted to cooperate to strengthen the means of shared cooperation, and to remove barriers to trade and collaborative investment.”
On Saturday, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken held a meeting with the UN Special Representative to Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily in Washington. They discussed the Libyan people’s demand for Presidential and Parliamentary elections.
During the talks, Blinken praised the UN mission’s “great efforts to promote consensus among Libyans to enable elections in 2023. The US stands firmly with the Libyan people in their demand to finally choose their own leaders.”
Ahead of his briefing to the UN Security Council, Bathily also met with senior officials from Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Qatar, Türkiye, the UAE, and the United Kingdom on Friday.
Bathily updated the participants on his recent consultations with Libyan leaders and institutions, in order to promote consensus leading to elections in 2023, the US Department of State said.
It said that participants “took note of the achievements made by the Libyan Parliament and High Council of State (HCS) in Egypt-facilitated negotiations, on a constitutional basis for elections, and consulted on the next steps in finalising election preparations.”
