{"id":18026,"date":"2013-02-04T13:50:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T12:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2013\/02\/20130204_ita_libia_negoziati-2\/"},"modified":"2013-02-04T13:50:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T12:50:29","slug":"20130204_ita_libia_negoziati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2013\/02\/20130204_ita_libia_negoziati\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy-Libya: loan negotiations began well, says Terzi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Negotiations on the issue of loans by Italian firms to Libya \u201care proceeding satisfactorily\u201d, said Minister Giulio Terzi at the end of a meeting at the foreign ministry in Rome with his Libyan counterpart Mohammed Abdelaziz, who gave \u201cmajor indications\u201d on the question.<\/P>
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Terzi and his Libyan colleague met in the margins of a ministerial meeting on UN Security Council reform, within a framework of \u201cvery intense collaboration\u201d between Italy and Libya and \u201cfrequent meetings\u201d at institutional level. Security was another of the topics treated, to which Italy, Terzi assured, \u201cwants to contribute in a concrete way with a system of border management and by reactivating the programmes that involve Italian firms, along with training and institution building for Libyan administrations\u201d. <\/P>
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Crisis in Mali <\/STRONG><\/P>
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The ministers also discussed the crisis in Mali. Italy and Libya \u201cpolitically support\u201d the operation set in motion by the international community and sanctioned by a UN resolution and, above all, the \u201cstrengthening of the ECOWAS initiative\u201d, which \u201cshould contribute to the rapid stabilisation of the entire Sahel\u201d, Terzi concluded. <\/P>
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Abdelaziz :\u201cItaly a key country for political and material support\u201d<\/STRONG><\/P>
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\u201cItaly is a key country for political and material support\u201d to Libya, Abdelaziz recalled, which today confirmed on the issue of loans, that \u201cwe are working hard to reach an agreement\u201d and \u201cin the coming weeks we could have some good news\u201d. The Libyan premier will be in Rome \u201cin the coming weeks and on that day I believe some concrete steps could be taken\u201d, he announced.<\/STRONG><\/P>
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Conference in Paris 12 February<\/STRONG><\/P>
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In terms of security, \u201cthe situation is not so serious, we have had some isolated incidents, but life goes on\u201d, Abdelaziz explained, expressing his hopes for \u201cthe greater presence of Italian firms\u201d. To that end, the Libyan minister recalled the importance of the upcoming conference in Paris on 12 February. \u201cWithout security no environment can hope to encourage investments\u201d, and without security \u201cwe cannot build our democratic institutions\u201d or \u201can environment open to investments\u201d.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Negotiations on the issue of loans by Italian firms to Libya \u201care proceeding satisfactorily\u201d, said Minister Giulio Terzi at the end of a meeting at the foreign ministry in Rome with his Libyan counterpart Mohammed Abdelaziz, who gave \u201cmajor indications\u201d on the question. Terzi and his Libyan colleague met in the margins of a ministerial […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6,76,404],"class_list":["post-18026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente","tag-ministri-precedenti","tag-sicurezza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}