Italy agrees to allow rescue ship Ocean Viking to disembark 82 migrants on southern island Lampedusa following a European deal to split them among countries
The Norwegian-flagged ship, which had appealed for days for a port of safety, is operated by two humanitarian groups, Doctors Without Borders and SOS Mediterranee.
The previous government, under a rigid anti-migrant policy, banned charity rescue boats from entering Italy's waters and disembarking migrants on Italy's shores. Italy's new foreign minister, Luigi Di Maio, leader of the coalition's senior partner, the populist 5-Star Movement, cautioned against concluding his government was softening its stance on private rescue boats.Luigi Di Maio said the Ocean Viking was only being given access to the southern island of Lampedusa because other European states had agreed to take in many of those on board.
Germany and other EU countries have advocated finding at least an interim solution to the impasse over rescues in the Mediterranean Sea, ahead of a meeting of the bloc's interior ministers September 23 in Malta.Sueddeutsche Zeitung Di Maio also said he was working on aid deals that would improve economic conditions in the migrants' homelands and to achieve more bilateral repatriation agreements.
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