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07-05-2017, 04:32 AM
GENEVA: More than 100,000 migrants have made the perilous Mediterranean crossing to Europe this year, the UN said on Tuesday, amid mounting tensions among EU nations on how to tackle the crisis.
Nearly 2,250 people have died in 2017 attempting the sea crossing from **rth Africa, the UN’s International Organisation for Migration (IOM) added. Italy has taken in nearly 85 percent of the arrivals -- most of them sub-Saharan Africans crossing from Libya -- and has pleaded for help from other European Union nations, saying it is struggling to cope.
"The reception of rescued migrants can**t be seen as an issue only for Italy, but a matter for Europe as a whole," IOM chief William Lacy Swing said, appealing for the rest of the EU to show more solidarity.
On Sunday, Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti called on EU neighbours to open their ports to rescue ships picking up migrants in the Mediterranean, after issuing a drastic threat to close its own ports to the boats.
But France rejected that idea, with an aide to Minniti’s counterpart Gerard Collomb telling AFP this would only encourage more migrants to set sail. EU interior ministers are due to meet in Estonia’s capital Tallinn on Thursday to discuss the migrant crisis -- the continent’s worst since World War II -- in a bid to defuse a long-running row over spreading asylum seekers across the bloc. The EU put in place a policy in 2015 to distribute around 160,000 asylum-seekers across different countries.
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Nearly 2,250 people have died in 2017 attempting the sea crossing from **rth Africa, the UN’s International Organisation for Migration (IOM) added. Italy has taken in nearly 85 percent of the arrivals -- most of them sub-Saharan Africans crossing from Libya -- and has pleaded for help from other European Union nations, saying it is struggling to cope.
"The reception of rescued migrants can**t be seen as an issue only for Italy, but a matter for Europe as a whole," IOM chief William Lacy Swing said, appealing for the rest of the EU to show more solidarity.
On Sunday, Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti called on EU neighbours to open their ports to rescue ships picking up migrants in the Mediterranean, after issuing a drastic threat to close its own ports to the boats.
But France rejected that idea, with an aide to Minniti’s counterpart Gerard Collomb telling AFP this would only encourage more migrants to set sail. EU interior ministers are due to meet in Estonia’s capital Tallinn on Thursday to discuss the migrant crisis -- the continent’s worst since World War II -- in a bid to defuse a long-running row over spreading asylum seekers across the bloc. The EU put in place a policy in 2015 to distribute around 160,000 asylum-seekers across different countries.
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