The Head of the High Council of State, Khalid Al-Mishri, told the visiting Italian Foreign Minister, Luigi di Maio, on Monday in Tripoli that there should a fine line drawn between the foreign forces that came to Libya based on official agreements with other states and mercenaries.

UN experts on Friday called on all private military contractors and mercenaries to leave Libya immediately, saying their departure is “overdue” and a “vital precondition” for the peaceful elections planned for this year, reports Anadolu Agency.

The Russian Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Dmitry Polonsky, said that Russia and Turkey fully agree on the necessity for all foreign forces and mercenaries to withdraw from Libya.

The London-based Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper has learned from independent Egyptian sources that mediation recently succeeded in bringing understandings between Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, and warlord Khalifa Haftar, stating that the two sides will meet very soon in Benghazi as a first stage.

European arms companies are “instrumental” in mass displacement and fuelling the refugee crisis, according to a report by Transnational Institute (TNI).

Haftar’s so-called moral guidance department said Sunday that the talks they held in Moscow were successful, quoting the head of the delegation, Khairy Al-Tamimi, director of Khalifa Haftar’s office and a member of the 5 + 5 Joint Military as saying that meetings with the Russian side were fruitful.

At the second Berlin Conference on Libya, which took place on June 23, Russia (as well as other participants) reaffirmed their earlier calls for “credible steps towards the dismantling of armed groups and militias by all parties.” One of the “armed groups and militias” present in Libya is the Russian …

The head of the Government of National Unity, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, stated that he was unaware of any agreement between Russia and Turkey over the removal of their foreign fighters, but that such a move would be welcomed.

Russia announced on Thursday that it was “concerned about the foreign military presence in Libya,” calling for a “simultaneous withdrawal of all foreign forces and factions there.”

The Libyan Prime Minister Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah addressed the UN Security Council Thursday and highlighted the threat of the continued presence of foreign forces and mercenaries in Libya to the political process as well as efforts to consolidate the ceasefire and unify the military institution.