On the sidelines of his participation in the 78th session of the UN General Assembly, the Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, estimated that the situation in Africa is very worrying and we should have intervened back years.
The Italian official added that the overthrow of Gaddafi was a serious mistake and this caused destabilization in all regions of Africa.
Lampedusa has become, today, a point of arrival, but we have to look at the starting points of the migrants. This requires a long-term strategy, he said.
The situation in Africa is of an international scope and the UN must fully fulfill its role.
Answering a question about the recent letter from the high representative of the EU for foreign and security policy, Josep Borrell, who declared that he did not share the policy of the commission concerning the memorandum signed by Tunisia, Tajani said that “the European Council was informed of everything, and I would not want a measure of non-compliance to be taken by the high representative”.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has shown that it is “interested and determined” to collaborate with certain “virtuous” African countries to strengthen the fight against illegal immigration and human traffickers, as well as for the relocation of migrants who arrive for example in Tunisia, continued the chief of the Farnesina.
“The African question is a global question: Europe is important, but the UN must also do its part,” he said by talking about his meeting today (Editor’s note: Monday September 18) with the director of the organization, Annie Pope “.
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