{"id":16760,"date":"2018-09-29T12:26:28","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T12:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16760"},"modified":"2018-09-29T12:26:28","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T12:26:28","slug":"tunisia-and-italy-pledge-to-cooperate-more-over-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16760","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia and Italy pledge to cooperate more over migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1379421\/middle-east\" readability=\"67\">\n<p>\nTUNIS, Tunisia: Tunisia and Italy have agreed to step up efforts to send Tunisian migrants identified as illegally staying in Italy back to their home country and to improve the cooperation between their governments.<\/p>\n<p>\nItalian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, speaking during an official visit to Tunisia, said the \u201cthe priority is to improve the conditions of return of these migrants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nSalvini said both countries agreed to fight \u201cagainst the trafficking of human beings &#8230; and to limit the number of deaths\u201d of those crossing the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa to Europe. The International Organization for Migration says over 1,600 people have died crossing the Mediterranean so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe also pledged to work on additional Italian investments to create jobs especially in southern Tunisia, where most Tunisian migrants come from.<\/p>\n<p>\nItaly wants to become Tunisia\u2019s No. 1 economic, commercial, cultural and tourist partner, Salvini said.<\/p>\n<p>\nHis counterpart, Hichem Fourati, said Tunisian authorities were ready to accept returns of confirmed Tunisian citizens. He referred to a 2011 agreement between Tunis and Rome that allows authorities to send back 45 people to Tunisia per week.<\/p>\n<p>\nFourati stressed that \u201cmore than 500 people accused of human smuggling\u201d have been arrested this year.<\/p>\n<p>\nSalvini also met with Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUNIS, Tunisia: Tunisia and Italy have agreed to step up efforts to send Tunisian migrants identified as illegally staying in Italy back to their home country and to improve the cooperation between their governments. Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, speaking during an official visit to Tunisia, said the \u201cthe priority is to improve the conditions&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}