Premier Giuseppe Conte on
Thursday held a migrant summit with Interior Minister Luciana
Lamorgese, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, Defence Minister
Lorenzo Guerini and Transport and Infrastructure Minister Paola
De Micheli.
Sources said the meeting was called so that the new
government can get down to work on the migrant issue.
The new 5-Star-Democratic Party (M5S-PD) government has
signalled it may break with some of former interior minister and
League leader Matteo Salvini's tough anti-migrant policies.
These included closing Italy's ports to NGO run migrant
rescue ships.
There are currently two NGO ships at sea that have asked for
a safe port from Italy, the Ocean Viking and the Alan Kurdi.
So far ministers Lamorgese, Guerini and De Micheli have kept
a low profile in the two cases.
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