Italy expects more countries to receive rescued migrants

Another shipment of food and drink for a day was en route for a couple of military ships on the Sicilian coast Sunday, while Italy hoped that more European countries would commit to accepting a part of the hundreds of migrants on board. Before letting them land in Italian territory.

Germany, Spain and Portugal agreed to receive 50 migrants, each after France and Malta, from other member countries of the European Union, made same Saturday. Giuseppe Conte Italian

However, the Czech Republic rejected the appeal and said that the distribution plan of immigrants is "a road to hell."

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said that it will prohibit them from landing in Italy, more migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean unless other European countries do not. also agree to accept them.

Salvini, who heads the right-wing Liga Norte party in the populist coalition government in Italy told reporters Sunday that "the goal was fraternal redistribution" of the 450 passengers rescued on military ships. "The ultimate goal is that no one leaves Libya in the boats." More than 600,000 migrants have been rescued in the central Mediterranean and taken to Italian territory in recent years. Many of them were economic migrants unfit to receive asylum. Because their home countries often do not facilitate the deportation process, Italy has had to welcome many, although thousands have left Italy to look for a job or loved ones in northern Europe.

receiving migrants who want to apply for asylum and who are on military vessels off Sicily, in the middle of a heat wave, could take a long time.

Some of the products that were delivered on Sunday were baby food,

A fishing boat left Libya on Friday, led by traffickers of people, with about 450 migrants, sailed to the small island of Linosa on the coast of Sicily, through the search and rescue areas of Malta and Libya.

On the coast of Linosa, a ship from the Frontex European Border Agency and an Italian border security boat rescued the migrants and took them to beaches on the outskirts of the Sicilian port. no Pozzallo.