The outgoing Dbeibeh government in Libya has asked two Egyptian diplomats working at their country’s embassy in Tripoli to leave the country.
This request came after the Libyan government classified them as ” undesirable individuals,” according to information obtained by “Bawabat Al-Wasat.”
The Libyan government gave the diplomats, Counselor Mohamed Adel Mohamed Hosni and Second Secretary Mohamed Mamdouh Mustafa El-Sharbiny, 72 hours to leave Libyan territory, according to an official letter sent by the Protocol Department of the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Egyptian embassy.
The Dbeibeh government expressed its refusal to receive figures from “parallel bodies” that do not enjoy international recognition, in reference to a visit by a delegation led by the Prime Minister-designate of the Libyan House of Representatives, Osama Hammad, to Egypt and his meeting with Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly in El Alamein.
For his part, Talal Al-Mihoub, head of the Defense and National Security Committee in the House of Representatives, announced that any positions or statements issued by the outgoing Dbeibeh government do not express the will of the Libyan people and do not represent the position of the legitimate House of Representatives.
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