DFA lowers alert level to Libya
22.05.12
Some 10,000 Filipino workers in Libya, mostly highly paid engineers, doctors and oil industry staff can soon return to their jobs after the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) lowered its security alert level on Tuesday in that country.
Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said on Tuesday that President Aquino has approved the recommendation of the governing board of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) to lower the alert level in Libya from Alert Level “4” which requires mandatory evacuation and repatriation to Alert Level 2, or restriction phase.
“This lowering of the alert level means the redeployment of returning overseas Filipino workers in Libya, as well as allowing Filipinos who chose to stay behind to return to the country and allow them to return to Libya,” said del Rosario in a statement.
The DFA issued Alert Level 4 in Libya and other conflict stricken countries affected by Arab Spring in March and ordered the mandatory evacuation.
Source: Business Mirror