Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stressed the importance of cooperation between the two countries to solve the Libyan crisis and the issue of illegal immigration.
According to a statement issued by the Italian Prime Ministry, the agreement came between the two parties on several files, following Meloni’s meeting with the Turkish president on the sidelines of the G20 summit on the Indonesian island of Bali on Wednesday. The two sides stressed the importance of joint action in order to facilitate a solution to the Libyan and illegal immigration crises.
Earlier, Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi told the Senate that the presence of NGO ships in the Mediterranean near the Libyan coast is considered an attraction for migrants and human traffickers, considering at the same time that a private entity such as those ships “cannot be the one to choose the country in which the immigrants are disembarked.”