Mattarella says Italy doing its part alone on Libya

Italian President Sergio Mattarella, speaking from Malta at a summit of European heads of state on the migrant crisis, said Italy is ‘doing its part, without any help’ to manage the migrant problem in Libya, adding that he was making the comment ‘without any ‘polemic force”. Mattarella said that with the closure of the Balkan route, the main route is that of Africa.’The duty to work on conditions in refugee camps is everyone’s, even international organisations,’ he said.Mattarella said a simple ‘closure would be unmanageable and only the European Union as a whole can efficiently manage the readmission, reception of those who have a right to it in the entire Union, and only the EU can manage accords with countries of origin of migrant flows’.