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Italy Calls for Migrant Centers South of Libya

Staff Writer by Staff Writer
06/25/18
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Charities have been chartering boats to rescue migrants who face very difficult conditions in Libya as they attempt to reach Europe. Photo: Louisa Gouliamaki, AFP

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Italy’s far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini called Monday on a visit to Tripoli for processing centres to be set up south of Libya’s borders as a way to block attempts by migrants to cross the Mediterranean.

“On Thursday in Brussels, we will jointly support with Libyan authorities the setting up of reception and identification centres south of Libya, on the external border of Libya, to help Libya as well as Italy block migration,” he said, referring to an E.U. summit this week.

Salvini, addressing a news conference alongside Ahmed Maiteeq, deputy premier of Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA), did not specify which African countries should host the centres.

Maiteeq said Libya “categorically refuses” to set up such camps on its own territory and that his country would invite European nations bordering the Mediterranean to a summit on migration to be held in Tripoli in September.

Salvini also held talks on his brief visit with the GNA chief, Fayez al-Sarraj, and the interior minister, Abdessalam Ashour.

European governments want to prevent #refugees and #migrants from reaching Europe at all costs. #Italy -with EU support- is equipping, training and supporting Libyan Coast Guard to intercept migrants and refugees in international waters in #Mediterranean and return them to #Libya pic.twitter.com/uTGQaJwHr4

— MSF Sea (@MSF_Sea) June 24, 2018

Italy, on the frontline of Europe’s migrant crisis, has turned away rescue vessels with its new populist government demanding greater solidarity from reluctant fellow E.U. states.

Salvini, who was the first member of the new government to visit Libya, on Sunday bluntly told foreign charities to stop rescuing migrants off the North African coast.

In an interview published Monday with the newspaper La Repubblica, Libya’s Maiteeq said he hoped to work with the Italian government on the crisis.

“The cooperation between Italy and Libya is crucial,” he said, adding that the arrival of migrants was also “a major problem” for his country.

“Traffickers who bring migrants to Italy are dangerous criminal groups for us, who prevent Libya from taking a step toward a difficult normalisation.”

“All of Europe must think of structural measures to take in African countries to stop migrants.”

On Sunday, 16 of the E.U.’s 28 leaders held emergency talks in Brussels to find a way forward despite a longstanding deadlock over who should take in migrants and refugees who land in Italy and other European countries.

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