The Philippines urged its thousands of workers in Libya on Saturday to leave the strife-torn nation **w while they still can, warning that the remaining exit routes were closing fast. A ship chartered by Manila is set to sail from Malta in the coming days to pick up Filipi**s from the ports of Benghazi, Misrata and possibly Tripoli, a foreign affairs department statement said. "The (Department of Foreign Affairs) is appealing with urgency to those who have **t made the decision to be repatriated to please consider doing so as the avenues of repatriation are quickly diminishing," the statement said. Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario, in neighbouring Tunisia to coordinate the evacuations, fears the route to sea "may be the only means of repatriation", it said.
08-04-2014, 04:15 PM
Philippines urges workers in Libya to leave while they can
The Philippines urged its thousands of workers in Libya on Saturday to leave the strife-torn nation **w while they still can, warning that the remaining exit routes were closing fast. A ship chartered by Manila is set to sail from Malta in the coming days to pick up Filipi**s from the ports of Benghazi, Misrata and possibly Tripoli, a foreign affairs department statement said. "The (Department of Foreign Affairs) is appealing with urgency to those who have **t made the decision to be repatriated to please consider doing so as the avenues of repatriation are quickly diminishing," the statement said. Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario, in neighbouring Tunisia to coordinate the evacuations, fears the route to sea "may be the only means of repatriation", it said.
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