Italy will not accept
unilateral decisions on closing borders at next week's
extraordinary summit on the migrant emergency, Foreign Minister
Paolo Gentiloni said in Cyprus Friday.
"We can't accept unilateral decisions that crack a European
edifice that has been built over decades," he said at a meeting
of seven Mediterranean countries.
Gentiloni said yesterday's alarm voiced by European
Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos on the future of
the Schengen area was "understandable".
Gentiloni added that it was "too early" to say if Italy
would be sending men to Libya.
He said Libyan authorities needed to request that.
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