Italy is ready to provide Libya with support to guarantee security in the Mediterranean – Salvini

Italy is ready to provide Libya with “technical and economic support to guarantee security in the Mediterranean together and to strengthen investigative cooperation and security cooperation”.

This was stated by Matteo Salvini, in a meeting Libyan Interior Minister Abdulsalam Ashour in Tripoli. For its part, the Libyan government “categorically refuses” the proposal circulated in the European context to create “camps for migrants in the country”.

“Italy wants to be a protagonist in relations with Libya, and on Thursday at the European summit the government will support the need to protect the external borders south of Libya , because it is not just Libya and Italy that support the economic and social costs of this migration “, Salvini reiterated.

“Libya – said the vice premier – is a friendly country Italy and I am committed maximum to define a closer collaboration to fight illegal immigration, but also to carry out joint initiatives in economic and cultural matters.”