Italian ports will remain open to
the EU's Sophia migrant search-and-rescue mission until its
operational rules are changed in a few weeks time and Italy will
no longer be the only landing point, Foreign Minister Enzo
Moavero Milanesi said Monday.
Speaking after meeting German counterpart Heiko Maas in
Berlin, Moavero said that in the meantime, "Italy will guarantee
docking in its ports of all the persons saved" by the Sophia
mission ships.
"Within the space of a few weeks we will arrive at the
modification of the operational rules of the European navy
operation Sophia, which should put an end to landing rescued
people in a single country," he said.
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