Italy to demand closure of ports to international migrant ships

Italy wants to prevent ships operating for "international missions" from bringing migrants rescued off Libya to Italian ports, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Sunday. "On Thursday, I will put on the European table at Innsbruck a demand to close Italian ports to ships of international missions," Salvini said on his Twitter account, referring to a meeting with his EU counterparts in the Austrian town next week. "Unfortunately, Italy's governments over the past five years signed accords allowing all boats to bring their migrants in Italy," he said.

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July 08, 2018 at 08:45PM