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Thursday, June 11, 2009

[Italy-Libya] CIR: Press Release - Libya should respect its international obligations for the protection of refugees

“We would like to recall that Libya has ratified the 1969 Convention on the specific problems of refugees in Africa” said the Chairman of the Italian Council for Refugees (CIR), Savino Pezzotta. “The accession of Libya to this Convention includes the recognition of the fact that precisely the African Continent has witnessed for decades the drama of refugees obliged to flee from political, ethnic and religious persecution as well as from armed conflicts in course in many Countries members of the African Union”

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