23:50 GMT30 March 2020

Migrants and refugees wait to be trasferred.

EU-Turkey-Style Deal on Migrants Not Applicable to Libya - UN Refugee Office

© AFP 2020 / Andreas Solaro

11:53 GMT 02.02.2017Get short URL

Subscribe

https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/104956/02/1049560212_0:181:3500:2149_1200x675_80_0_0_0b8baa05b61d7020e7d4f948f881a30a.jpg

Sputnik International

https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png

Sputnik

https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png

https://sputniknews.com/europe/201702021050272587-deal-migrants-eu-turkey/

The situation in Libya is unstable and unsafe, with the country lacking appropriate asylum system, thus duplicating the deal on migrants that the European Union reached earlier with Turkey would be wrong in the Libyan case, spokesman for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) William Spindler told Sputnik on Thursday.

EU's High representative for foreign affairs and security policy Federica Mogherini.

© AFP 2020 / THIERRY CHARLIER

European Commission Rejects Suggestions of Turkey-Style Migrant Deal for Libya - Mogherini

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Curbing migration from Libya will be one of the main topics for discussion on Friday at an informal EU leaders' meeting in Malta. According to a draft declaration leaked ahead of Friday's summit, the bloc will help supervise Libya's land borders by offering financial aid and equipment to help ensure fewer people entered Libya from neighboring Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia, thus stemming the flow of migrants from the Libyan coast to EU states.

"The situation in Libya is very different from that in Turkey. Because of the prevalent insecurity and lack of an asylum system, UNHCR does not consider that Libya is a safe place to return people to or to disembark those rescued at sea in international waters," Spindler said.

The UNHCR spokesman added that considerable challenges to humanitarian work existed in Libya, with unstable and unpredictable political and security conditions, absence of appropriate reception centers and deplorable conditions of refugees' detention centers in Libya being some of the main problems.

In this Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015 photo, local residents hold a demonstration against illegal immigration after hearing news that a boat carrying hundreds of migrants capsized off the coast, in Zuwara, Libya

© AP Photo / Mohamed Ben Khalifa

EU Commissioners Clash With Malta Over Planned Libya Migrant Deal

The idea of the EU-Turkey-style deal was put forth by Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat in January. He suggested an agreement with Libya similar to the Brussels-Ankara deal, under which Turkey pledged to take back all undocumented migrants who come ashore in Greece if EU countries receive Syrian refugees resettled from Turkish camps on a one-for-one basis.

In 2016, Italy saw a record 181,000 arrivals of migrants that crossed the Mediterranean Sea, with the bulk of them embarking on the risky trip from Libya. Some 5,000 people are estimated to have lost their lives in attempts to reach European shores.

Related:: EU Warned Against Repeat of 2015 Migrant Scenes, 'Illegal, Immoral' Turkey Deal

: UN Refugee Agency Slams Maltese Plan for Migrant Deal With Libya

: Greece to Call for North Borders' Opening If EU-Turkey Migrant Deal Fails – MP

Tags:

European Union, EU-Turkey migrant deal, Turkey, Libya

Community standardsDiscussion

Comment via SputnikComment via Facebook

Сomment
Thank you! Your comment will be reviewed by the moderator for compliance with the Rules
Add more
Post limit reached. Please try again in a minute.
Your comment contains a link, so it can't be published on our site

Сomment

Community standards

The fact of registration and authorization of users on Sputnik websites via users’ account or accounts on social networks indicates acceptance of these rules.

Users are obliged abide by national and international laws. Users are obliged to speak respectfully to the other participants in the discussion, readers and individuals referenced in the posts.

The websites’ administration has the right to delete comments made in languages other than the language of the majority of the websites’ content.

In all language versions of the sputniknews.com websites any comments posted can be edited.

A user comment will be deleted if it:

does not correspond with the subject of the post;
promotes hatred and discrimination on racial, ethnic, sexual, religious or social basis or violates the rights of minorities;
violates the rights of minors, causing them harm in any form, including moral damage;
contains ideas of extremist nature or calls for other illegal activities;
contains insults, threats to other users, individuals or specific organizations, denigrates dignity or undermines business reputations;
contains insults or messages expressing disrespect to Sputnik;
violates privacy, distributes personal data of third parties without their consent or violates privacy of correspondence;
describes or references scenes of violence, cruelty to animals;
contains information about methods of suicide, incites to commit suicide;
pursues commercial objectives, contains improper advertising, unlawful political advertisement or links to other online resources containing such information;
promotes products or services of third parties without proper authorization;
contains offensive language or profanity and its derivatives, as well as hints of the use of lexical items falling within this definition;
contains spam, advertises spamming, mass mailing services and promotes get-rich-quick schemes;
promotes the use of narcotic / psychotropic substances, provides information on their production and use;
contains links to viruses and malicious software;
is part of an organized action involving large volumes of comments with identical or similar content ("flash mob");
“floods” the discussion thread with a large number of incoherent or irrelevant messages;
violates etiquette, exhibiting any form of aggressive, humiliating or abusive behavior ("trolling");
doesn’t follow standard rules of the English language, for example, is typed fully or mostly in capital letters or isn’t broken down into sentences.

The administration has the right to block a user’s access to the page or delete a user’s account without notice if the user is in violation of these rules or if behavior indicating said violation is detected.

Users can initiate the recovery of their account / unlock access by contacting the moderators at moderator@sputniknews.com

The letter must contain:

Subject - the restoration of account / unlock access
User ID
An explanation of the actions which were in violation of the rules above and resulted in the lock.

If the moderators deem it possible to restore the account / unlock access, it will be done.

In the case of repeated violations of the rules above resulting in a second block of a user’s account, access cannot be restored.

To contact the team of moderators, write to moderator@sputniknews.com