Premier Mario Draghi will on Friday take part in a high-level summit on Libya that aims to bolster international support for key national polls slated for 24 December and endorse the departure of foreign forces.
The conference is being organised with the United Nations, Germany and Italy. Draghi will hold talks with France's president Emmanuel Macron ahead of the summit which will wrap up with a joint press conference held by France, Italy, Germany, the UN and Libya.
World powers have been pushing for elections as a key part of a road map out of years of violence between an array of Libyan and foreign armed groups.
US Vice President Kamala Harris, and Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and Egypt's president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi are set to attend the Libya conference.
