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The issue of secondary movements of
refugees and asylum seekers can only be solved by managing
primary movements and solutions must involve cooperation with
countries of origin and transit, Premier Giorgia Meloni told a
joint press conference after Rome talks with German Chancellor
Olaf Scholz Thursday.
"The challenge is not only to talk about how to try, within
European borders, to transfer migrants from one nation to
another. The issue of secondary movements can only be solved by
managing primary movements," said Meloni, referring also to the
meeting of EU interior ministers on the new EU pact on migration
and asylum underway in Luxembourg on Thursday.
"The issue is to defend the external borders, to fight human
trafficking, to encourage legal immigration. To do all this we
need to involve the nations of transit and origin through
serious cooperation, with investments, offering alternatives to
those fleeing their countries. Because we must first of all
defend the right not to have to migrate," she added.
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