President El-Sisi Makes Phone Call with New President of the Presidency Council of Libya

President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi made a phone call this evening with the new President of the Presidency Council of Libya, Mr. Mohamed Al-Manfi.

As stated by the Spokesman for the Egyptian Presidency, President El-Sisi congratulated the President of the Presidency Council of Libya for forming the new Libyan executive authority and for Dbeibah’s government earning the trust of the Libyan House of Representatives. His Excellency stressed the importance of building on these positive steps by pushing forward the course of achieving a political settlement and maintaining the intra-Libyan dialogue in a manner that would restrain external interference.

For his part, Mr. Mohamed Al-Manfi expressed his appreciation for the warm congratulations communicated by His Excellency and for the sincere Egyptian efforts to regain security and stability and achieve development in Libya. This is prompted by the specificity of the historical relationship between the governments and peoples of Egypt and Libya. Mr. Al-Manfi also stressed the keenness of the new Libyan executive authority to strengthen and cement the brotherly relationship between Egypt and Libya in a manner that guarantees both brotherly peoples’ goodness, growth and prosperity.