UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
said Thursday Italy is on the front lines of European migrant
rescue efforts. These are necessary in the face of "thousands of
deaths, which have transformed the Mediterranean into a sea of
tears," he told the Lower House as Italy celebrated its 60th
anniversary as a UN member nation. He added the ongoing Syrian
civil war "is the worst humanitarian crisis" in the world and
that he is working on it closely with his special envoy,
Italian-Swedish diplomat Staffan de Mistura.
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