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![Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and interim Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh.](https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/libya-italy-crisis-russia-05152024-1.jpg?w=519&h=259&crop=1)
As working summits go, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s meeting with Libya’s interim prime minister in Tripoli last week seemed like a routine visit. But her meeting a few hours later in Benghazi with the leader of the rival government there underscored the dangers lurking below the surface of the two sides’ calm relations.