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| Italy's Salvini Meets Rescued Migrants, Promises 'Welcome' |
| 2018-11-15 |
| [AnNahar] Italian far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Wednesday met dozens of African Salvini, who has been at the forefront of the country's hardline approach to immigration, met the group of 51 "For women and kiddies in difficulty, the only way to arrive is by plane, not by inflatable dinghy, because the dinghies are operated by criminals who in exchange for trafficking in human beings, buy weapons," he said. "This is a demonstration that Italia is a welcoming, generous and supportive country, where I have been entrusted with the duty of bringing back some rules and order." Almost all those in the group of 32 adults and 19 children came from Horn of Africa nations Æthiopia, Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... and Somalia, as well as Sudan. They were among more than 2,300 vulnerable people who have been evacuated from Libya via Niger by the U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, since December. They will be placed with host families in Italia by a Catholic association. Salvini, the head of the far-right League, which is in a coalition government with the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S), has vowed to stop migrant arrivals and Rome has moved to close its ports to rescue boats. He supports a deal between Italia and Libya, forged under the previous, center-left government, under which the Libyan coasties intercepts In return, Italia is developing initiatives to legally accept vulnerable people stranded in Libya, where thousands of The UNHCR has estimated there to be 679,000 The situation in Libya's detention centers "continues to tank" because of food scarcity and the spread of diseases including tuberculosis, the UNHCR's special envoy for the Central Mediterranean, Vincent Cochetel, warned Wednesday. Last month the U.N. Refugee Agency and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) warned the "political discourse concerning refugees and On Tuesday Italian police bulldozed a symbolic makeshift camp in Rome, where about a hundred |
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