UN Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Ghassan Salame told Sputnik on Saturday he had received the invitation from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to visit Moscow.
“The Russian foreign minister invited me to Moscow. I hope to respond to his invitation [and to visit Russia] soon”, Salame said, adding that he had received the invitation during a meeting with Lavrov on the margins of the Munich Security Conference.
Hannibal Gaddafi has been kept in a Lebanese jail since 2015 in connection with the disappearance of Lebanese Shia imam Musa Sadr in Libya, which has never been fully investigated. Sadr and his companions departed for Tripoli in 1978 at the invitation of the late Libyan leader, and their whereabouts have been unknown ever since. A number of theories reportedly exist around the circumstances of his disappearance, none of which have been proven. The Shiite community in Lebanon accuses late leader Muammar Gaddafi of abducting the cleric.
In late January, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told Sputnik that Russian diplomats had contacted Lebanese politicians about the situation around Hannibal. According to the deputy foreign minister, Hannibal Gaddafi’s kidnappers have already been tried for their actions, but his trial had not yet started.