Italian President Sergio
Mattarella said Wednesday that the European Union needed a
coordinated policy to tackle the asylum-seeker crisis.
"The (migrant) tragedies (at sea) that I just recalled
impose the need and urgency on us at the European level for a
coordinated, effective, single policy," Mattarella said during a
speech at Rome-based United Nations food agency IFAD
(International Fund for Agricultural Development).
The Italian head of State said promoting sustainable
development and combatting poverty and inequality was a key part
of the "hope for a better future for entire populations and, as
a consequence, the planet".
He added: "the chain of hunger, poverty and the flight
from poverty is strong, but it can and must be broken.
"It is the historic responsibility this world owes future
generations and, above all, the Zero-Hunger Generation that is
about to be born and whose hopes we cannot disappoint".
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