Bangladesh, Egypt on safe countries list for repatriations

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 8 - Bangladesh, Cameroon, Colombia, Egypt, Peru and Sri Lanka have been added to the list of safe countries of origin, with regard to the assessment of applications for international protection, and to which repatriation procedure becomes easier, the foreign ministry said Wednesday.
    It said is relevant decrees had been published in the Official Gazette, thus becoming law.
    The EU will shortly be informed, the ministry added.
    Bangladeshi migrants have been among the most numerous in recent rescues and landings in Italy. (ANSA).