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Monday, June 11, 2018 –
6:27am
Italy has refused to let a humanitarian ship carrying more than
600 people rescued from the Mediterranean dock at its ports, saying
Malta should open its port to the vessel.
The MV Aquarius, a search and rescue ship run in partnership
between SOS Mediterranee and Medecins Sans Frontieres, has been
told by Italian authorities to stand by in its current position, 35
nautical miles from Italy and 27 nautical miles from Malta.
The BBC reports that among those on board are “123
unaccompanied minors, 11 younger children and seven pregnant
women”.
Why has Italy closed its ports to the migrants?
The move by Italy’s new interior minister and leader of the
far-right League, Matteo Salvini, is an “opening gambit to
make good on his electoral promises to halt the flow of migrants
into the country”, Reuters says.
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“Malta takes in nobody. France pushes people back at the border,
Spain defends its frontier with weapons,” Salvini wrote on
Facebook. “From today, Italy will also start to say no to human
trafficking, no to the business of illegal immigration.”
Will Malta accept the ship?
Salvini, in a joint statement with Italian coastguard minister
Danilo Toninelli, insisted that Malta “cannot continue to look the
other way when it comes to respecting precise international
conventions on the protection of human life.”
A spokesman for the Maltese government told AFP that “the rescue of the migrants took place
in the Libyan search and rescue area and was headed up by the
rescue coordination centre in Rome, meaning Malta has no legal
obligation to take in the migrants”.
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