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Libyan PM meets with EU leadership

Libya's embattled prime minister Fayez al-Sarraj met separately in Brussels on Wednesday with European Council president Charles Michel and EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell. Both meetings discussed the spiralling conflict in Libya amid a recent military push by Turkey into the country. Michel told al-Sarraj the EU opposed the Turkey-Libya delimitation of maritime jurisdictions in the Mediterranean Sea, highlighting violations on sovereign rights and the law of the sea.

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