(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 17 - Premier Giorgia Meloni said that
"illegal migrants are the enemy of legal ones" as she addressed
the Trans-Mediterranean Migration Forum in Tripoli on Wednesday.
"We have not been able to allow many legal migrants to come to
Italy in recent years because we have had too many illegal
ones," she explained.
"Criminal organisations want to decide who has the right to
enter our country and who does not.
"My government has passed decrees expanding the quotas (for
legal migrants) for three years, above all from the nations that
help us fight against human traffickers.
"I think everyone can see that the Mediterranean is a priority
for this Italian government and the Mediterranean cannot exist
without Italy and Libya together. "This is partly the reason why
we have greatly improved cooperation on various fronts over the
last two years". (ANSA).