Salvation migrants: Renzi requires convene a summit of EU – BBC Russian

• 20 April 2015

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Matteo Renzi lamented the lack of European solidarity

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi asked to convene an emergency summit of the EU to address the problem of illegal migration from North Africa.

On the eve of the Mediterranean capsized 20-meter boat, which was carrying about 700 African illegal immigrants.

The ship sank 17 miles (27 km) off the coast of Libya and 130 miles (210 km) off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, the representative of the Italian Coast Guard.

According to the Italian authorities, managed to save a total of 28 people. Only for the current year is expected to have sunk more than 1,500 illegal immigrants on their way from North Africa to Europe.

According to the newspaper Times of Malta, the ship capsized after time workers rushed to one side, in order to attract the attention of a passing ship.

The journalists Mark Micallef in an interview with BBC BBC said that this case is “not unusual”.

“We see again and again one and the same scenario: the vessel is turned at a time when salvation is near “- he said.

Matteo Renzi called the deaths of migrants’ real murder that takes place every day, but about which people prefer not to think”.

On Monday in Luxembourg, a meeting between the Foreign Ministers of the EU on the problem of illegal migration in the Mediterranean.

Stop the flow

As noted Renzi, a larger number of rescue vessels in the Mediterranean does not solve your problem, you must stop the flow of ships bound from the shores of North Africa to the shores of Europe.

According to him, 90% of migrants boats leaving from the port of Libya, where been established illegal transportation of people in Europe.

Meanwhile, the mayor of the Sicilian city of Palermo Leoluca Orlando accused Europe is that it behaves “like Pontius Pilate washing his hands after the murder”.

As the Prime Minister of Malta Joseph Muscat, his country and Italy are forced to cope alone with the influx of illegal immigrants.

Since the beginning of this year, according to some sources, drowned in the Mediterranean Sea about 1,500 illegal immigrants

Pope Francis also called for immediate and decisive action to rescue African migrants trying to reach the sea in Europe.

Earlier this week, to the north of Libya another vessel capsized migrants, and about 400 of them, presumably drowned.

According to the UN agency for refugees in 2014 almost 3.5 thousand people have died in the Mediterranean while trying to reach Europe.

At the same time during the duration of the “Mare Nostrum”, which was funded from the Italian budget in 2014 were saved more than 200,000 illegal immigrants.

Last year, to replace the “Mare Nostrum” come-limited opportunities and funding by European recovery program, which provides the EU border agency Frontex.