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The head of the United Nations' migration agency called Thursday on Libyan authorities not to detain migrants rescued or intercepted by the country's coastguard.
The International Organization for Migration's William Lacy Swing said he had "suggested" to Libyan representatives that they have the IOM "to get the link between migrants being collected from the sea and the detention
Migrants brought into Libya from the Mediterranean should be taken to a" reception center " "
Another 10,000 have their home", he said at a press conference in Tripoli.
Swing added that since late November, the IOM had helped to repatriate millions of migrants who had been held at detention centers in the Libyan capital. Libya by land via Agadez in Niger
A November summit in Abidjan saw the creation of a working group composed of the European Union, African Union, the IOM and the UN efugee agency UNHCR.
Liberation of the Liberation of Libya (19659008) Moamer Gaddafi's rule of Libya's 5,000 kilometers (3,000 miles) of southern land borders in the Mediterranean and cross to Europe.
The Flow of Migrants through Libya on the aftermath of Kadhafi was toppled and killed in 2011, with smugglers exploiting the country's chaos 300-kilometer stretch of the Mediterranean to Italy
William Lacy Swing (L), the Director General of the International Organization for Migration, speaks during a conference in Tripoli on July 5, 2018
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