Libya’s Foreign Minister Strongly Criticizes the European Immigration Policy

Thomas Henry
2 min readDec 6, 2021

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On Friday, the Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Al-Manqoush pummeled the process for keeping travelers from arriving at the European shores, asserting that it has neglected to address the central reasons for the issue, and has hence served just the interests of the European Union nations.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs talked during a video call at the Mediterranean Dialogs Conference, facilitated by the Italian government in a meeting named ‘Managing Migration. She said, ‘Please.. try not to point your fingers at Libya, and don’t depict us as a country that abuses settlers.’

‘We are worn out on getting off-point… and every one of these is simply shallow arrangements. It’s an ideal opportunity to explain the issue and defy it as opposed to… rehashing it over and over,’ she added. The European Union — which has been chastised in the past for supporting inside Libyan endeavors to stop transient intersections — has now upheld the nation’s coast monitor, which consistently captures ships moving travelers.

Numerous transients, who endure these cruel conditions, expressed that they are set in confinement habitats, and in woeful conditions, or held for emancipate. The European Union in a roundabout way finances confinement camps through foundation associations. In her discourse, the Libyan priest didn’t straightforwardly address the allegations evened out against her country’s specialists of abuse of transients.

Every year, a huge number of transients and exiles from Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia endeavor the hazardous Mediterranean Sea through Libya, getting away from war and neediness with expectations of tracking down a superior life in Europe.

The UN Migration Agency detailed that such a long way from 2021, a bigger number than 1,300 travelers have kicked the bucket attempting to cross the Mediterranean from Libya and Tunisia to Italy and Malta. The European Union has sent 455 million euros to Libya starting around 2015, to help the Libyan Coast Guard, fortify the association’s southern lines, and further develop conditions for transients.

Al-Manqoush said that Libya needs a superior police framework on its southern boundary to control the progression of transients and tackle the underlying foundations of the issue, adding that the arrangement of essentially subsidizing Libya won’t do the trick. She likewise depicted past drives as being offered ‘simply to serve the EU plan and the EU point of view’.

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Thomas Henry
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