By Libya Herald reporters.
Tripoli, 18 October 2016:
Though there were unconfirmed reports today that the Presidency Council has issued the Rixos coup plotters with a ultimatum to give up within the next three days or be attacked, PC member Mohamed Al-Amari has insisted that it is intent on using legal means to end the action led by Khalifa Gwell.
Amari today met the UK’s ambassador to Libya, Peter Millett at the prime ministry and said that the PC wanted to stop the country from sliding into violence. He pointed out that PC chief Faiez Serraj had instructed the Attorney General to issue a warrant for the arrest of the group.
They discussed Tripoli’s enduring problems of power cuts, insecurity and lack of liquidity. In the course of today a LD400 million consignment of new banknotes was flown in to Mitiga airport from a British printers.
Afterward their encounter Millett told the Libya Herald “ It was a useful meeting on how the international community can support the efforts of the PC to implement the Libyan Political Agreement”.
At a separate meeting at the prime ministry the ambassador talked to PC member Abdussalam Kajman.
He also saw High State Council president Abdulrahman Sewehli at the Radisson hotel where he underlined that all institutions established by the Libyan Political Agreement have a role and that the State Council will be an important body and the House of Representatives will be the legislative body.
This story has been corrected because it originally stated that the Amari-Millett meeting had been in Tunis.
