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  • Zingaretti: "Government maintains commitments or rather vote"
  • Migrants, torture and torture in refugee camps in Libya: three arrested
  • Minniti: "Human rights in Libya undeniable question"

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October 31, 2019A raise the issue, yesterday the secretary of the Democratic Party, Nicola Zingaretti - who from the microphones of 'Circo Massimo' - had asked "to change the memorandum with Libya". Appeal that has not been unheard. A few hours later 20 parliamentarians from different political groups turned to the executive to suspend the agreements with Tripoli. Among the priorities, they ask to open a new negotiation with the Libyan National Unity Government and with the European Union "to define a humanitarian evacuation plan for all the people currently held in governmental and non-governmental centers, under the coordination of UNHCR" .


Government NGOs: "Do not renew your memorandum with Libya"
Of the same opinion, the NGOs that ask not to renew the memorandum and recall how November 2, in the absence of government intervention, will trigger the automatic extension, for the duration of another three years. In a note they then explain: "The ongoing war in Libya has further aggravated the already tragic situation, the note denounces: migrants locked up in detention centers die under the bombs, as happened in Tajoura, or of hunger and thirst, when the managers of the centers flee in the face of the advance of the opposite faction: the United Nations, the Council of Europe and the European Commission as well as the Italian judiciary have repeatedly affirmed that Libya can in no way be considered a safe country and therefore the people who try to escape cannot be sent back to that country ".

Di Maio: "Memorandum can be improved, but it works"
The foreign minister, Luigi Di Maio, is ready to explain how the government will let the November 2 deadline pass but that it intends to work "to change the contents for the better, with particular attention to the centers and conditions of migrants. This - has added - will take place within the framework of the memorandum regulations, which allow us to bring together the Italy-Libya commission and try to improve the memorandum to improve the living conditions of those people. he can deny that thanks to that memorandum we have gone from 170 thousand landings to 2200 landings in two years. So it is working ".

Meanwhile, Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese will give a briefing to the House on the Libya memorandum next Wednesday, 6 November. Yesterday he recalled - pressed by reporters - that the choice or not to change the agreement was a "political choice".

Minniti: "I do not regret the pact with Libya, but now it must be changed"
"I acted as a man of democratic institutions at the service of the interests of the country. And I am a militant old-fashioned man who is inspired by the principle of" line faithful ". I am faithful to the line, but not to the point of physical self-suppression. "Articles of that Memorandum are not the Tablets of the Law. It is not unchangeable. However, I remain of the opinion that it cannot be changed unilaterally. We must try to make the agreed changes. Try to resume the process by hair, with an extreme attempt of stabilization of Libya abandoned by the previous government. If the changes do not go ahead, we will draw up a balance sheet. To Libya we must say that we do not leave it alone, but that we will be much more demanding. " This was stated by former Interior Minister Marco Minniti in an interview with 'La Repubblica' talking about the memorandum signed with Libya.

"I have dealt exclusively with the authorities of the Libyan government - he continues - And I have also worked to replace the bad currency of the traffic of migrants with the good currency of cooperation as well as the return to UN Libya. This is why I also wanted to meet the chieftains of the southern desert and the fourteen mayors of the cities most involved in the traffic. We are not hypocritical. This entails putting our hands in delicate, ambiguous situations. In Libya there is civil war. We come across characters from the not very clear past. factions recruit anyone to help fight the opponent, with the danger of ending hostages of the most extreme positions ".

As for Rahman al-Milad, known as Bija, reconfirmed commander of the Zawyah Coast Guard, despite being known as a criminal and already a trafficker, Minniti explained: "I have never met Bija. I read in the newspapers that he came to Italy for a trip to training organized by IOM, but I do not know any more about this, I never authorized agreements that sacrificed ethics and human rights ".