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Article: EU/LIBYA: TRIPOLI EXPELS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS SENT BY ITALY, MEPS LEARN.
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- European Report
- Article date:
- December 10, 2005
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According to Libya's deputy Foreign Minister, Mohammed Tahar Sila, "when illegal immigrants are returned to Libya, our mission is to contact the different embassies to verify their nationality and get them a travel visa. Afterwards we repatriate them to their country of origin. We are very happy that Italy cooperates with us by financing some of these return flights". The delegation learned that Rome has also paid for a migrant detention camp 20 kilometres from Tripoli and plans to fund another two such centres.
Postive reception.
"We were positively surprised" by the level of cooperation shown by the Libyans, head of the delegation Simon Busuttil told ...