Argentine embassy in Libya evacuated

Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman announced that Argentina “has evacuated its embassy in Libya” and reported that the staff has been transferred to Malta due to the tense situation the African country is living in.

The minister also said that after the request of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the country will send its White Helmets to the frontier with Tunisia, where massive groups of Libyans are leaving their country.

“The UNHCR requested us to work with the Libyan refugees, so we sent the White Helmet to work in the area. We are sending them to the border with Tunisia,” Timerman added after heading the G77 + China encounter held in New York City.

Due to the conflict in Lybia, the summit of the Southern Heads of State that was scheduled for June has been “re-scheduled” to be held in another country of Africa.

The minister also announced that the president of the UN General Assembly, ex President of Switzerland Joseph Deiss, will visit Argentina before July.