(ANSA) – Rome, April 21 – Foreign Minister Franco
Frattini said Tuesday that laws on assisting illegal
immigrants “must be respected“ after Italy was forced to
rescue seaborne migrants that Malta refused.
Around 140 Africans were left stranded on a Turkish
freighter which had rescued them from the sea as both Italy
and Malta denied it was their responsibility to receive the
migrants.
After a four-day stand-off in which the European
Commission sided with Italy, Ital
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