Tripoli, 31 Aug-(ANA)-Libyan leaderMuammer Gaddafi has urged the European Union to give €5bn a year to his country to fight illegal immigration in the Mediterranean.
“Libya turns to the European Union to support what Libya asks because Europe, in the future, might not be Europe any more but might turn black because of all the illegal immigrants”, said Col Gaddafi on the second anniversary of the Libyan-Italian friendship treaty.
A 2009 deal, under which Libya pledged to help stop the flow of illegal immigrants from Africa to Italy, has been condemned by the Vatican and by human rights organisations. The UN estimated that in the first four months of the treaty alone, Italy sent back 1,000 Africans it had intercepted in international waters, without screening them for refugee status.
The bilateral friendship treaty, signed in 2008, stirred further controversy and criticism from Italian politicians from all sides after the Libyan leader held lessons on Islam for more than 500 young women in Rome’s Academy of Libya. (ANA)
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