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Italy’s Foreign Minister: Decreasing Libyan coastguards’ assistance could cause “disaster”

The Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said decreasing assistance to the Libyan coast guard could lead to suspension of its wwork, more migration and worse crises in the Mediterranean.

Luigi told the Lower House on Wednesday that it would be unwise for Italy to break off its agreement with Libya on handling asylum seekers and combatting human trafficking.

“The memorandum of understanding between the states is set to be automatically renewed at the weekend unless one of the parties opts out. Di Maio told a question-time session that pulling out would cause a “political injury”.

Di Maio proposed to the Parliament that they remove Article 03 of the Libyan-Italian agreement.

The Italian Parliament discussed the possibility of hearing a briefing for the Italian Interior Minister about the Libyan-Italian agreement on November 05-06.

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