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Ali Zeidan and Enrico Letta
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A German MP
has revealed that the Libyan authorities are refusing to cooperate with Italian
and German command centres at the borders of the North African countries, to
prevent the abuse of asylum seekers crossing the Sahara desert.
Andrej
Hunko, of the left-wing party Die Linke, said that Libyan "partners"
to EUBAM-Libya - the EU border assistance mission - had refused to cooperate
with the Italian Council for Refugees, according to an answer to his PQ by the
Federal German government.
[…]
The
EU-funded bilateral Sahara-Med Project was due for renewal in March 2013. The
project included having the Italian Refugee Council to assume responsibility
for particular aspects of refugee management, namely the reception of refugees
and asylum issues, in the refugee camps around Tripoli.
"But
Libyan counterparts have so far refused to cooperate with the CIR - the Italian
Refugee Council - and this part of the project is not yet operational,"
the German government said.
