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Rome (dpa) – Printed of Italy Germany receives 50 boat people saved in the Mediterranean. Malta and France had already agreed to take care of 50 of the 450 migrants.
They had been salvaged from a wooden boat by two military ships Saturday off the Italian coast. On Sunday evening, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced on Twitter that Portugal and Spain each hosted 50 refugees.
Despite the promised support, the Italian and Frontex ship, according to the Ansa news agency, Sunday, before Sicily continues to wait for the transfer of a port. It was not clear when and where the rescued can go to land. According to Ansa, only about 50 children and women were able to leave the ships in the afternoon.
"Germany and Italy have agreed that, in view of ongoing discussions on more intensive bilateral co-operation on asylum, Germany is ready to accept 50 people in this case, "said a government spokeswoman. The Italian government has insisted on support from EU partners.
In recent weeks, the Italian government has repeatedly blocked the five-star populist movement and Lega right with the help of ships rescued at sea. Help agencies have been denied the # 39, access to Italian ports.
The United Nations Refugee Agency criticized the new blockade. A "common, predictable and effective agreement" on how to rescue people saved from distress "would save time, reduce suffering and prevent politicians from competing for the least responsible," UNHCR wrote . ] Twitter .
Italy had refused Friday to let the wooden boat sink into a port that, according to media reports, had begun from Libya . Malta did not feel responsible for migrants either. On Saturday, people were finally taken aboard military ships – but we did not know what would happen to them.
While far-right Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini has brought back the return of migrants to Libya, Prime Minister Conte and Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi have chosen the path of diplomacy.
Conte wrote letters to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, Council President Donald Tusk and European leaders. The latter called for an "unmistakable sign" of shared responsibility in the spirit of the EU summit at the end of June. There, Conte had insisted that the other member countries of Italy take more refugees and participate in the reception of the saved distress of the people.
Italy remained a long time alone in the migration crisis. Although many fewer refugees have joined the country for months – the previous government intensified its controversial cooperation with Libya last year – the government celebrated the support of EU partners as a step forward. Five-Star Minister of Transport Danilo Toninelli tweeted that the government had more results in 45 days than several years ago. Salvini tweeted: "Will is power". The Czech Republic announced that it would not accept any of the rescued migrants.
Meanwhile, despite an imminent blockade in case of rescue, the ship "Open Arms" of the Spanish aid organization Proactiva made its way to the Libyan coast. "We are going where there are no criminals or criminals, only lives in danger and too many deaths on the ground," the organization tweeted.
The Spanish Maritime Rescue and Coast Guard rescued Saturday, according to media reports, about 330 migrants who were traveling on boats in the Strait of Gibraltar and the Alborán Sea between the Iberian Peninsula and the Iberian Peninsula. ;North Africa. They were brought to different ports of Andalusia.
According to the International Organization for Migration, nearly 1,500 people died in the Mediterranean this year. Many refugees attempting dangerous flight begin in Libya, where chaotic conditions have occurred since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
According to EU figures, in recent months, with international aid, some 20,000 migrants have voluntarily returned home from Libya, a country of civil war. The European Union, the African Union and the United Nations set up a working group in November to dissuade people from fleeing to Europe and driving them back.
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