A group of Libyan parliamentarians paid an official visit to Turkey Dec. 15, meeting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the parliament speaker. The seven-member group, headed by Libya’s deputy parliament Speaker Fawzi al-Nuwairi, arrived in Ankara for the two-day visit invited by the Turkish parliament’s Libyan-Turkish Parliamentary Friendship Group. Little is said about what was discussed with the president. However, the Libyan side said in a statement that they discussed commercial and consular issues.

The vague statement, published on the Libyan parliament’s website, said that the guests also “discussed” matters including reopening of the Turkish Consulate in Benghazi, resumption of flights and reactivation of maritime links between eastern Libya and Turkey. Ankara closed its consulate in May 2014 citing security concerns because of clashes between different militias and Gen. Khalifa Hifter’s forces.

Notably, the delegation’s statement said that the trip was authorized by the “presidency of the parliament” in Tobruk in eastern Libya. This is the first time any Libyan parliamentarian has visited Turkey on the official invitation, as the two sides have been at odds for most of the last seven years.

The years of animosity started just after Hifter, with parliament backing, launched his military operations in Benghazi in 2014 code-named Al-Karama (Dignity) Operation vowing to clean Libya of “terrorists and militias.”