Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni
said Wednesday that Italy will not accept unilateral moves by
Austria on the asylum-seeker crisis, after Vienna started
reinforcing controls at its border with Italy at the Brenner
Pass, including via the construction of a new barrier. "Austria
is a friendly country with whom I hope we can continue to
cooperate, but we cannot accept the logic of these unilateral
gestures that would compromise this capacity for cooperation,"
he said. Gentiloni said "burdens and responsibilities should not
be offloaded onto one's neighbours" because there is "a need to
have a joint agenda on a European level on the migration issue".
He said "the emergency will be a problem which will see us
involved in the years to come. Simplistic responses cannot be
given to this problem". He said "I say that also in reference to
Austria".
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