Transport of migrants to Albania resumes says Piantedosi

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 4 - Operations to take migrants to Albania "can resume", Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said Monday on the sidelines of a G7 ministerial meeting on sustainable urban development.
    Such operations will take place "as soon as there will be the logistical conditions of interception and transit of migrants and then to pre-screen people potentially eligible to be transferred" to Albania, he noted.
    Piantedosi also expressed confidence that a decree listing safe countries for expatriation approved by the government on October 21 will overcome the issue of courts not validating the detention of migrants, as occurred when a Rome tribunal on October 18 nixed the detention of the first group of migrants taken to the newly opened facilities in Albania on the grounds that their countries of provenance were not safe, based on an October 4 decision taken by the European Court of Justice.
    "If I hadn't been" confident, "we wouldn't have done it", said Piantedosi, referring to the decree. (ANSA).