Press Release

Libya - Un Ponte Per: "Draghi's serious words on migrants.
Support the peace process by abandoning policies of war".

Rome, 7/04/2021 - Prime Minister Draghi's words of thanks to Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dabaiba over the "rescues of migrants at sea" are disconcerting. These are not "rescues" but real rejections at sea that Libya is carrying out on behalf of the EU, then sending the "rescued" to concentration camps and prisons, in contempt of human rights and international conventions. According to Un Ponte Per - "Draghi insists on the line of previous governments that have turned the Mediterranean into the largest cemetery of contemporary times".

"We certainly ask Italy to support the process of reconciliation and peace in Libya," say Un Ponte Per's co-presidents Alfio Nicotra and Angelica Romano, "but this must be done by supporting the disarmament of the factions, the withdrawal of the thousands of mercenaries sent by foreign powers to fight on Libyan soil, and making the arms embargo decided by the UN effective.

"Even on the fate of energy resources and investments," continue the two co-presidents, "it must be clear that a large part of the proceeds must remain in Libya, also as compensation for the war waged by NATO against that people. They must be used for the reconstruction of the infrastructures destroyed by the conflict, starting with schools, hospitals and houses for those who were forced to abandon them because of the war events'.

For Un Ponte Per to continue to delegate to the Libyans the "containment by all means" of the flow of migrants would be extremely serious.
On the contrary, it would be legitimate to expect from the Draghi government an effective follow up to the words pronounced by the Prime Minister himself in support "of humanitarian corridors to allow legal migration and to take these people away from human trafficking".