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Six EU countries ready to take migrants aboard rescue ship: Italy
ROME, Aug 15, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Six EU countries say they are ready to take
in some of the 147 migrants currently stranded on a rescue ship near the
Italian island of Lampedusa, Rome announced Thursday.
“France, Germany, Romania, Portugal, Spain and Luxembourg have told me
that they are ready to welcome the migrants,” Italian premier Giuseppe Conte
said in an open letter addressed to far-right Interior Minister Matteo
Salvini who has sought to ban the Open Arms rescue vessel from entering
Italian waters.
BSS/AFP/ARS/1849 hrs