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IFCL Economic Working Group addresses urgent economic issues

bySami Zaptia
January 23, 2021
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By Sami Zaptia.

London, 23 January 2021:

UNSMIL announced yesterday that on 21 January, the co-chairs of the International Follow-Up Committee on Libya’s Economic Working Group (EWG), including Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya Stephanie Williams and representatives of Egypt, the United States and the European Union, convened a meeting to discuss urgent economic issues. These included the need to manage the impacts of a unified exchange rate as well as the need to unify and consolidate a national budget.

The Governor of the Central Bank of Libya Sadek El-Kaber, the Minister of Finance Faraj Bumtari and his counterpart Mrajea Ghaith participated in the meeting as well as senior diplomats representing the member states of the Berlin Conference, experts from the Libyan Economic Dialogue, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the IMF and the World Bank.

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The co-chairs welcomed the recent economic reforms including the re-activation of the Central Bank (CBL) of Libya’s Board of Directors, the unification of the exchange rate, as well as progress in the financial review of the CBL and the recent announcement of the audit of the Libyan Investment Authority. These reforms are viewed as critical to creating a more durable, transparent, and equitable economic arrangement.

Participants agreed to address the increasing costs of basic commodities, including bread, and to implement measures to ease the banking crisis including decreasing the backlog of cheques. Participants also agreed that, pending the prospective unification of the executive, it was vital to finance critical expenditures for the 2021 budget and finalize a unified and consolidated budget at the earliest opportunity. This included ensuring that there was adequate funding for critical expenditures including on salaries, health, the National Oil Corporation’s infrastructure maintenance needs, and rapid investment in electricity infrastructure.

To this end, it was agreed that next Monday, UNSMIL, together with the World Bank and IMF, will convene a meeting of the CBL and Ministry of Finance to address these critical issues for the benefit of the Libyan people.

Tags: Acting UNSMIL head and SRSG Stephanie WilliamsEconomic Working Group EWGfeaturedIFCL International Follow-Up Committee on Libya

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