Libya agreement to be signed, says intelligence chief

(AGI) Rome, Dec 16 - In a hearing before the Schengen Committee of the Italian parliament on Wednesday, Director of the Security Intelligence Department (DIS), Giampiero Massolo, denied the agreement between the governments of Tobruk and Tripoli had fallen through. "The prediction is that tomorrow the signing will take place as expected, with those who expressed willingness to sign, that is the majorities of the two parliaments," he explained. "This is an important development in political and diplomatic terms that the governments have pledged to support in a concrete way and with possible measures if it were to break down." Massolo continued: "There was a misunderstanding, engendered by the fact that it was officially said that the signing would take place on the 16th but instead it will be on the 17th. And a further element of misunderstanding was given by the coincidence that yesterday in Malta there was a meeting of the presidents of the two parliaments representing the hardliners" on both sides. (AGI). .