Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will next week become the latest in a procession of European leaders to travel to Libya to touch-elbows with the new Government of National Unity.
Mitsotakis will visit Tripoli on Tuesday “to normalise and restore relations”, Greek government spokeswoman Aristotelia Peloni told reporters. He will also reopen his country’s embassy which has been shuttered for six years.
Accompanied by Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, the prime minister is set to meet the head of the presidency council, Mohammad Menfi and interim prime minister Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibah, Peloni said.
The visit will “signal the Greek embassy’s immediate reopening”, she added.
Greece’s embassy in Tripoli has been closed since July 2014, when a Greek navy frigate and two Greek other vessels helped to evacuate nearly 200 Greeks and other foreigners as the capital descended into chaos and militia violence.
