“First of all, we will hold a discussion on Libya. I just met with the UN Special Envoy [for Libya, Ghassan] Salamé in Brussels a couple of days ago, and I will report to the Ministers about the state of play in Tripoli, in Libya”, said EU top diplomat Federica Mogherini upon her arrival to the Council for EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg.
The European Union will search for the ways to reinforce the support to the United Nations, both in political process, but also on economic reforms and on security arrangements.
There will be separate discussion on the external work on illegal migration together with the UN Refugee Agency and of the International Organisation for Migration IOM, headed by the newly elected IOM Director General António Manuel de Carvalho Ferreira, who will join ministers by video conference from Geneva. While Filippo Grandi will arrive to Luxembourg meeting.
“We will focus on the different strands of work we have been putting in place, also in view of the European Council that is meeting in Brussels later this week. We will prepare the ground for the Prime Ministers and Heads of States to review the work we are doing and indicate where Member States are ready to do more, in which fields of action, on the external side of migration” Mogherini underlined.
Central African Republic (CAR) will be the other point of agenda, assessing the possible ways for aid to the country in ‘difficult conditions”, the diplomat underlined.
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