A working group will be set up to determine what needs to be changed in the Triton mission and the new plan, once finalised, will be submitted to the members of the European Union. This was announced by the director of Frontex, Fabrice Leggeri, at the end of the meeting held on Tuesday in Warsaw, where the European Border and Coast Guard Agency is based. The appointment had been requested by Italy precisely to discuss the maritime operation in the Mediterranean.
"Frontex is ready to expand its support to Italy in the area of repatriations - reads a statement - it is committed to strengthening its presence in hotspots in Italy", and proposes to "expand the use" of the aerial surveillance (MAS) as well as "sharing operational experience" to develop the code of conduct for NGOs.
The Italian delegation - led by the director of the border police, Giovanni Pinto - reiterated the request to disembark migrants also in the ports of other member states in case of massive arrivals. Last week, EU interior ministers rejected this proposal from our country en masse. But the one that arrived yesterday was "another step forward", commented the interior ministry.
Today the Minister of the Interior, Marco Minniti, will be in Berlin and Thursday in Tripoli to meet the Libyan mayors.
Not only that: in the next few hours, Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron in Trieste. During the appointment - organized on the sidelines of the summit on the Western Balkans - the head of the Italian government will re-launch the issue of the relocation of migrants in various member states.
