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The Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General (ASRSG) and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Stephanie Williams, and the co-chairs of the Economic Working Group of the Berlin Process including Egypt, USA and EU, continued today a technical meeting of representatives of Libya’s main financial institutions which started yesterday at the United Nations Office at Geneva to reach an agreement on critical policy reforms. These efforts are being undertaken to address the needs of the Libyan people and to establish a more durable and equitable economic arrangement.
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