Italy wants to change Sophia not close it - Moavero

(ANSA) - Rome, January 23 - Italy wants to change the migrant landing rules of the EU's anti-migrant trafficking Sophia mission, not close it, Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi said Wednesday.
    A European summit last June urged member States to fully share all burdens, the foreign ministry said.
    April 2015 accords on the other hand, it said, had envisaged that migrants should be always disembarked in Italy.
    "Italy has never asked for the closure of Sophia," Moavero said.
    It asked for the rules relating to the disembarkation of persons saved at sea should be changed in rigorous and dutiful coherence with the conclusions of the European Council of June 2018".