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Mustafa Sanalla, the head of the NOC in Tripoli in the west of the country, will become chairman of the unified company, which will be based in Benghazi in the east, according to a statement on the NOC website. Sanalla’s eastern Libya counterpart, Nagi Elmagrabi, will join the NOC board. The agreement was reached Saturday in Ankara, Elmagrabi said in a telephone interview from the Turkish capital.

Libya, with Africa’s largest proven crude reserves, split into separately governed regions in 2014, leading to the establishment of rival NOC administrations. Libyan factions are currently working to set up a Government of National Accord. In the five years since the ouster of the country’s longtime ruler, Moammar Al Qaddafi, Libya’s oil installations have been attacked and its crude output has slumped.

“We made a strategic choice to put our divisions behind us and to unify and integrate NOC,” Sanalla said in the statement. “This agreement will send a very strong signal to the Libyan people and to the international community that the Presidency Council is able to deliver consensus and reconciliation. I’m sure it will now build on this success to bring unity and stability to other government institutions.”