Some €96 million linked to blood relatives of slain Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi and held by a Maltese bank must be returned to the conflict-ridden Libyan state following a ruling by Malta’s courts on Tuesday.

Seven Sudanese rebel groups, including former Janjaweed forces, agreed to withdraw their forces from Libya at a meeting earlier this month.

Libya’s representative to the United Nations, Taher Al-Sunni, said that the political crisis in Libya is linked to regional and international conflicts.

The United Arab Emirates blocked a proposal on Monday by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to appoint former Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum as UN envoy to Libya, diplomatic sources have confirmed.

The withdrawal of mercenaries and foreign forces out of Libya “will remain linked to the formation of an elected and representative Libyan government for all Libyans,” U.N. Advisor Stephanie Williams said on Monday.

A member of the Communication Committee of the Constitution Drafting Assembly, Salem Kachlaf, has expressed his bewilderment at the recent statement issued by five western countries including the US, regarding development in the constitutional track.

The United States and four European countries have called on Libyan leaders to accelerate the establishment of a legal basis for holding elections in the war-torn country, Anadolu Agency reports.

Damascus, Tripoli and Algiers are among the four least liveable cities in the world, according to The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Liveability Index 2022.

The Libyan Foreign Ministry has rendered the statements of the spokesman for the Egyptian Foreign Ministry on the Government of National Unity and the roadmap agreement signed in Geneva as a flagrant intervention in Libyan affairs and an attack on its sovereignty.

The Foreign Ministry has summoned the Chargé d’Affairs of the Egyptian Embassy to Libya, Tamer Mustafa, to inform him of the ministry’s dissatisfaction with the ill-treatment that the Libyan citizens receive during their entry and exit from Egypt.