By Hadi Fornaji.
Tripoli, 1 June 2013:
Zuwara needs help with town planning, English language courses, guidance on expanding its civil society organisations . . .[restrict]and books for its cultural centre, local leaders told a visiting team from the British embassy on Friday.
Led by ambassador Michael Aron, the visitors toured the town and saw the new 480-bed hospital, on which the Turkish contractors have resumed work, met the local council and were shown around the port. There was also a trip out to Farwa, a nature reserve at the end of a long spit of land 35 km from the Tunisian border.
“The council is very interested in town planning” Aron told the Libya Herald, “ and we agreed to do what we could to link them to people who can assist. We are also going to be putting them in contact with the EU, which has a programme to help civil society organisations”. The embassy team also promised to send books to the library in the town’s culture centre.
The ambassador said he talked with community leaders about their hopes for the new constitution. “ I was also asked for help setting up English language courses in Zuwara, along the lines of the five schools the UK has helped established in the Jebel Nafusa, which I visited last week. We said we would of course assist but we want first to see how the five new schools work out.” Aron admitted that he was also asked about the problems Libyans face getting UK visas.
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