Libya and Greece agree to resume talks on Mediterranean Sea border

Libya's new unity government has had warm relations with Greece so far, but there are remaining issues on energy drilling in the Eastern Mediterranean that also involve Turkey and Egypt.
Libya's interim Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah (R) meets with Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Libya's capital, Tripoli, on April 6, 2021.
Libya's interim Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah (R) meets with Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Libya's capital, Tripoli, on April 6, 2021. - AFP via Getty Images
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Libya and Greece have agreed to resume talks on their disputed sea border.

The chair of Libya’s Presidential Council, Mohammed al-Menfi, met with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Athens on Wednesday. The two agreed on the “immediate resumption” of bilateral talks on their Mediterranean Sea border, the Greek state-owned Athens Macedonian News Agency reported.

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