The government is set for a
summit on the Libya crisis and migrants at around 17:00 Tuesday,
government sources said Tuesday.
All the ministers concerned will take part in the summit, the
sources said.
Premier Giuseppe Conte will preside, they said.
Militia fighters are moving closer to the UN-backed
government in Tripoli and the crisis may well have a knock-on
effect on migrants leaving for Italy.
Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini said Italy must be the
protagonist of stabilisation in the Mediterranean.
He said, referring to France, "the incursions of others who
have economic interests must not prevail over the common good
which is peace.
"I, too, am willing to run some risks and soon return to
Libya".
European Union member States should give up their own
national agendas in Libya, European Parliament President Antonio
Tajani said Tuesday.
"The European Parliament must make its voice heard on the
crisis in Libya in the next plenary session," he said.
"Only by acting in a united way can we work for peace and
stability.
"The member States must stop promoting their own national
agendas, damaging all European citizens".
The position of the EU member States is united on Libya, a
spokesman for the European service for external action said
Tuesday, answering a question on Italy's charges against France.
"The member States of the EU have a united position on
Libya," he said.
Yesterday High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica
Mogherini spoke to UN special envoy Ghassan Salamé to whom she
assured "the full backing on the part of the EU" to find a
"long-term solution" via a "political process", the spokesman
said when asked how the EU intended to act.
Libya is "without doubt" the new peril for Europe with regard
to ISIS, Rita Katz, the head of terror-monitoring website SITE,
told ANSA Tuesday.
"Last year ISIS no longer existed in Libya, it had zero
suicide operations," she said.
"This year there have been a dozen already all over the
country".
Katz added that "some of the fighters in Iraq and Syria have
been able to return".
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