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Thursday, August 05, 2010

[Italy/Libya] Times of Malta: ‘European Commission does not endorse push-back policy’

The European Commission should clarify its position about the Italy-Libya arrangement of automatically sending migrants back to where they came from, the UN refugee agency has said. “UNHCR’s understanding is that the European Commission has not in fact endorsed the Italy-Libya push-back arrangement, but it is of course up to the Commission to clarify its own position,” a UNHCR spokesman said.

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