(ANSAmed) - Rome, February 23 - Moroccan Ambassador to Rome
Hassan Abouyoub on Thursday rejected the idea of setting up
camps in North Africa for asylum seekers who get sent back after
being intercepted at sea while trying to reach Europe.
"It is not culturally acceptable," Abouyoub told an ANSA
Forum.
"It is not acceptable to park human beings. I don't give
lessons to Europe but the security response (to migrant flows)
is not suitable and has not produced results".
Abouyoub said a collective approach was needed to stop
increasing migrant flows and argued that promoting development
was crucial to attacking the problem at the source.
"No country is able to address (this issue) on its own,"
Abouyoub told the forum.
"It requires a collective approach of solidarity and shared
responsibility".
He said that the approach of Morocco, which from being a
country of origin and transit for migrants has now also become a
country of immigration, "is that of the Rabat Conference, based
on attacking the causes at the origin, accelerating human
development to reduce the flows at the source".
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