Migrants, Italy calls for joint commission on changes to the memorandum with Libya

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ROME – Italy requests, pursuant to Article 3 of the Italy-Libya memorandum, to bring together the joint commission of the two countries and, pursuant to Article 7, to amend the agreement on combating illegal immigration. It is the content, according to government sources, of the verbal note transmitted yesterday by the Italian government to Libya. The Italian government's intention to maintain the memorandum is therefore confirmed, asking Tripoli to negotiate the changes that will have to be defined. The commission should be presided over by the Italian foreign minister Luigi Di Maio and by the Minister of the Interior Luciana Lamorgese: the objective, they explain, "is to improve the human rights memorandum" in the reception centers for irregular migrants. A first response came from Libya. The govero of Tripolo is "open to changes in the memorandum of understanding on migrants signed between Libya and Italy", he said Hassan El Honi, the press adviser to the president of the Government of national agreement, Fayez Al Serraj. "We have not yet received requests for changes from Rome – he explains – and when we have them we will decide, but like any agreement it is possible to see them again in time".

What do you expect?

The Italy-Libya Memorandum of Understanding was signed in February 2017 by the then President of the Council of Ministers Paolo Gentiloni and by the Prime Minister of the Libyan national reconciliation government Fayez al-Serraj. The agreement, which officially regulates "cooperation in the field of development", "the fight against illegal immigration, trafficking in human beings and smuggling" and "the strengthening of border security between the State of Libya and the Italian Republic ", was reached in the context of the European crisis of migrants and the Libyan civil war, when tens of thousands of men, women and children landed on the Italian coast.
The economic aid and the training and media support guaranteed by Italy to the Coast Guard of Tripoli, numbers in hand, have certainly helped to drastically reduce the arrivals but Libya does not seem to have managed to improve, as promised, the living conditions of the migrants massed in reception centers. Centers to which the United Nations and humanitarian organizations have access, but only in a very limited way, as widely documented by government reports and journalistic reports.
The role of the Libyan Coast Guard, which according to various sources would at least in part be formed by local militias colluding with traffickers, is the subject of discussion. In the excavation, journalist of "Avvenire", who documented how Abd al-Rahman al-Milad, known as Bija, considered one of the organizers of the trafficking of migrants, participated in official meetings between Italian and Libyan authorities in Italy.

The political front

The Minister of the Interior, Luciana Lamorgese, explained that on the Memorandum "the government decides" and in question time in the House the Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio he assured that he "is working to modify it for the better", in particular "in the part concerning the conditions of the detention centers". Little, yet little, for those who believe instead that the Centers themselves are the cornerstone of scandal, the scene of what the UN itself defined as "unimaginable horrors": sales of human beings, torture, sexual violence, rape and abuse of every guy.
On 2 November, three months before the deadline and in the absence of various indications, the Memorandum of understanding, strongly supported by the then Interior Minister Marco Minniti, it will be tacitly renewed for another three years: and this in recent days has contributed to widening the audience of opposites, a cross-cutting front that includes non-governmental organizations, associations that protect migrants' rights and human rights in general – gathered under aegis of the Asylum Table – and MPs of Pd and Leu.
The former Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, attacks the minister Lamorgese who, according to him, "does not even know the data of his ministry, was chosen against his will as stopgap. The landings are more, the NGOs circulate. He is disembarking another ship in Taranto. I would not that the steel had also been sold off. Instead of work, the Government brought the immigrants to Taranto. Then he added: "On security we will do battle in Parliament. Few little money has been allocated ".

Doubts

Among the accusations made against the Memorandum by its detractors also that of "poor transparency": in January 2018 the Asgi, the Association for legal studies on immigration, asked the Ministry of the Interior to know the status of implementation of the agreement pursuant to the 'Foia', which gives anyone the right to know data and documents held by public administrations but the request was rejected because it would have "entailed a concrete prejudice to interests protected by law, such as" public safety "and" order public'". This refusal, however, is considered legitimate both by the TAR and by the Council of State.

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