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Premier Giorgia Meloni thanked
Tunisia for its efforts to combat human traffickers after
bilateral talks with President Kais Saied on Tunis on Wednesday.
"I want to once again thank the Tunisian authorities and
President Saied for the work we try to carry out together
against human traffickers," Meloni said.
"We know that Tunisia cannot become the country of arrival for
migrants.
"Cooperation on this must be strengthened.
"We want to involve international organizations, work on
repatriations and, above all, on legal (migrant) flows, as we
did with the decree that enables around 12,000 trained Tunisian
citizens to legally come to it.
"I believe that much more can be done by Italy on the legal
migration front, but it is essential that we work together to
continue to fight the slaver-traders of the third millennium,
the mafia organizations that exploit the legitimate aspirations
of those who would like a better life".
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