She announced that ITA Airways would be resuming direct flights to Libya in January next year, testifying to the gradual and steady strengthening of cooperation between the two Nations

The President of the Council of Ministers, Giorgia Meloni, travelled to Tripoli today to participate in the first Italy-Libya Business Forum to be held in Libya for over ten years.

The Business Forum gathered together high-level representatives from the Italian and Libyan business communities, and was structured across four sector-specific working groups dedicated to: energy; fishing and agro-industry; healthcare and pharmaceuticals; and, infrastructure and design. There was also a session focusing on the forms of public support available to Italian companies intending to do business in Libya provided by ICE (Italian Trade and Investment Agency), SACE (Italian Export Credit Agency) and SIMEST.

During her opening address, the President of the Council of Ministers, who was accompanied by Minister of Enterprises and Made in Italy Adolfo Urso, announced that ITA Airways would be resuming direct flights to Libya in January next year, testifying to the gradual and steady strengthening of cooperation between the two Nations.

In the margins of the Business Forum, President Meloni had a bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister of the Libyan Government of National Unity, Abdul Hamid Dabaiba.

Their discussion focused on the various areas of the continuously growing bilateral cooperation. Among the sectors in which Italy and Libya collaborate, the two leaders addressed the issue of migration management, in relation to which President stressed the need to intensify efforts to combat human trafficking at the same time as boosting cooperation with nations of origin and of transit, in the context of the Rome Process and the Trans-Mediterranean Migration Forum which was held in Tripoli in July.

In closing, there was also unanimous agreement to work together with the goal of creating equal partnerships with African nations within the framework of the concrete projects launched as part of the Mattei Plan for Africa.

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