Tripoli: The President of the Presidential Council, Mohamed Al-Menfi, said that 'the continued increase in public spending, especially the dangerous inflation in the fuel subsidy item for 2023, requires urgent and decisive treatment of the policies of public institutions and not burdening its consequences with the citizen.' 'We are determined to form technical subcommittees to verify the causes of the inflation in Chapter One expenses, fuel subsidies, and ways to save the Libyan economy, and we will adhere to their recommendations,' he added in a tweet. Al-Menfi called on the Libyan institutions concerned with public spending to notify their representatives to participate in the first meeting of the Supreme Financial Committee for 2024 next week. Source: Libyan News Agency Geneva, Syria's permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Ambassador Haydar Ali Ahmad, said that the so-called 'The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria' continues its role as a tool for states sponsoring terrorism that fabricates lies and presents reports that have nothing to do with reality, stressing that it has become a tool to polish the image of terrorist groups and promote illegal structures which constitute direct support for these groups and direct involvement in threatening Syria's territorial integrity. 'The so-called Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria continues, as usual, performing its assigned political function as its reports affirm the goal that lies behind its foundation and reveals the poor and contradictory methodology that featured its reports since a decade,' Ali Ahmad said in a statement on Monday during the fifty-fifth session of the UN Human Rights Council. Ambassador Ahmad wondered whether that was the role expected from huma n rights mechanisms, saying 'do not the crimes committed against Syria by the sponsoring states for that mandate deserve even a word of condemnation, is it not supposed to discuss responsibility about the acts of direct aggression by the Israeli occupation entity against residential neighborhoods and civil facilities, and the illegal Turkish-American military presence, supporting terrorism, plundering natural resources, threatening territorial integrity.' The Syrian diplomat added that Syria continues to work to ensure the voluntary return of all Syrian refugees to their homeland and calls for support and consideration of these efforts and to the immediate and unconditional end of the coercive measures imposed by the West that badly affect the lives of the Syrians. Source: Syrian Arab News Agency
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