The agreement the Italian government
signed with Tirana this week to set up migrant centres in
Albania is an admission of inability to receive them, President
of the Italian Bishops' Conference and Bologna archbishop
Cardinal Matteo Zuppi said on Wednesday.
"I have read about it, we'll have to wait and see, per se it is
an admission of inability because it is not understandable why
reception should not be better organised, on this there can be
no doubt," said Zuppi on the sidelines of the presentation of a
report by the Migrantes Foundation.
"It seems there are also discussions within the majority, what
is certainly important is to have a reception system that
provides security to all, both to those who are received and to
those who receive," he added.
Under the agreement Meloni signed with Albanian Premier Edi Rama
in Rome on Monday, migrants rescued at sea by the Italian
authorities would be taken to Albania.
It would not apply to migrants picked up by NGO-run
search-and-rescue ships, those who actually land in Italy or to
minors, pregnant women and vulnerable people either.
At the northwestern Albanian port of Shëngjin, the deal says,
Italy will handle disembarkation and identification procedures
and set up a first reception and screening centre.
In Gjader, also in north-western Albania, it will set up a
another centre for asylum seekers from so-called safe countries
of origin along the lines of the centre at the Sicilian port of
Pozzallo, where people are held for the time necessary to carry
out accelerated asylum determination procedures.
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