Tripoli, Feb 14 : Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, Libya’s newly appointed Prime Minister, confirmed that he has started working on forming a new unity government.
“We are still working hard on forming a government of national unity. We have indeed begun the process of evaluation of all candidates and resumes that we received,” Dbeibah tweeted on Saturday.
“Our standards are efficiency, taking into consideration diversity and wide participation,” Xinhua news agency quoted the Prime Minister as further saying.
On February 5, the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) voted for a new Prime Minister and a Presidency Council in the UN-sponsored talks in Geneva.
Dbeibah was selected as the Prime Minister and Mohammad Younes Menfi as President of the Council.
The new authority will present a fresh government to the House of Representatives within 21 days.
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