Hundreds of people have marched this Sunday through the streets of Libya’s capital, Tripoli, to protest in front of the Greek Embassy in the midst of deteriorating diplomatic relations between the two countries.
The Greek Foreign Minister, Nikos Dendias, refused on Thursday to get off the plane that took him on an official visit to Tripoli when he discovered that his counterpart Najla al Magush, responsible for the signing in October of an energy agreement with Turkey, much disputed by Athens, had come to meet him.
Athens argues that the minister belongs to a government designed to hold elections that never took place, whose mandate has expired and cannot sign international and binding agreements for the future of the country.
«Dendias, your hands are stained with blood», read some of the banners of the demonstrators on Sunday, who have come to star in some scuffles with the police as they approached the Embassy.
The demonstrators, according to the Libya Observer, ended up passing in front of the Embassy to demand the immediate departure from the country of the Greek diplomatic staff. So far, no further incidents have been reported.
