Italy should "close the ports"
to stop the flow of asylum seekers from the Mediterranean,
Hungarian Premier Viktor Orban said on Friday.
Orban said that the four leaders of the Visegrad group, which
also includes the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland, have
written a letter to this effect to Italian Premier Paolo
Gentiloni.
According to Orban, who is not ruling out the military
option, the problem must be resolved in Libya.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said
Friday that 93,369 asylum seekers arrived in Italy via sea up to
July 19 this year, 85% of the total of 111,514 for the whole of
Europe.
It said 2,360 people have died trying to cross the
Mediterranean so far this year.
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