Libya, Italy must aim for immediate repatriations – navy Measure to discourage migration, General Qassem says

(ANSAmed) - CAIRO, FEBRUARY 15 - Libya and Italy should aim for rapid repatriations, to be carried out within "a week", in order to discourage illegal immigration, Libyan navy spokesman General Ayoub Omar Qassem has said. "If Italy supports Libya in repatriating migrants directly after their arrest - perhaps immigration will drop" … "insofar as they will realise that it is impossible to reach Europe because they are repatriated immediately," General Qassem told ANSA. "Italy and Libya must repatriate migrants without delays within no more than a week of their arrest. With this measure it is effectively possible to achieve something," he added.



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