UPDATE - Turkish foreign minister meets Libya’s High Council head

UPDATES WITH TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER’S PHONE CALL WITH UK COUNTERPART

By Merve Aydogan

ANKARA (AA) – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Wednesday met the visiting head of Libya’s High Council of State in the capital Ankara.

“Discussed current political situation and latest developments with Khaled al-Mishri, President of High Council of State of Libya,” Cavusoglu said on Twitter.

Cavusoglu expressed his wish that “stability, prosperity and peace” prevails in Libya, adding that Turkey “will continue to support our Libyan brothers and sisters to this end.”

In September, al-Mishri was re-elected chairman of the High Council of State for a fourth one-year term and paid a visit to Cavusoglu shortly afterwards.

Libya has witnessed positive developments following a Feb. 5 breakthrough in which rival parties agreed on a unified new executive authority to govern in the run-up to elections this Dec. 24.

Libyans hope the new authority will end years of civil war that have engulfed the country since the ouster and killing of strongman Muammar al-Qaddafi in 2011.

Later in the day, Cavusoglu spoke to his British counterpart Elizabeth Truss over the phone, according to diplomatic sources.

The two officials discussed bilateral issues and “some regional matters,” the sources said.​​​​​​​