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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9897

8 May 2009
Contents Publication in full By article 21 / 26
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha
For first time Tripoli agrees to take back migrants

Brussels, 07/05/2009 (Agence Europe) - The Italian navy was authorised to enter the port of Tripoli in Libya on Thursday 7 May, to return 227 illegal immigrants whom it had picked up in distress off the coast of Libya on Wednesday, Italian authorities have announced. This is first time that Libya has made such a gesture. Italian Home Affairs Minister Roberto Maroni said that this was “a historic day in tackling illegal immigration”. Immediate repatriation of migrants intercepted off the...

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