15/04/2009 (Agence Europe) - On 8 April, the Libyan interior minister, Abdelfattah Yunis al-Obeidi, said that he was prepared to order stricter supervision of Libya's coastline as part of moves to curb illegal migration to Europe. He called for the "continued surveillance of Libyan beaches and setting up of control points in the zones from which illegal crossings to Europe are organised", the state news agency JANA reported. "More stringent measures are needed against the people traffickers", he said, as well as controls on the movements of fishing boats and on workshops used to build the makeshift trawlers used for the trafficking. These declarations were made after the European commissioner in charge of immigration, Jacques Barrot, urged Tripoli to step up measures against illegal immigration (EUROPE 9879). (B.C./transl.rh)