Interior Minister Marco Minniti
told an EU-Africa contact group on curbing central Mediterranean
migrant flows Monday that Italy will deliver a first batch of
motorboats to Libya to patrol its coasts by the end of April or
within the first two weeks of May.
"The first of the 10 motorboats envisaged by the recent
accord will be handed over," he said, adding that "90 sailors of
the Libyan Coast Guard have trained aboard the (Italian
flagship) San Giorgio and are now in the last stages of their
training".
"When they are ready we will hand over the first boats,"
Minniti said.
Minnit also said that migrant camps to be set up in Libya
will be set up alongside humanitarian organisations and will
therefore "fully" respect all human rights.
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