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"Any assistance and responsibilities assigned to Libyan search and rescue entities should be made conditional on no one being arbitrarily detained, ill-treated or subjected to human rights violations post-disembarkation," said UN agencies | Photo: picture alliance/S. Palacios
File photo: The English Channel is one of the busiest shipping routes in the world, making it highly dangerous for small boats | Credit: Twitter @Premarmanche
A group of 23 people, including children, arrived on the Greek island of Chios | Photo: picture-alliance/G. Siamidis
From left: Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese, Tunisia's Minister of the Interior Hichem Mechichi, interim Minister of Foreign Affairs Selma Ennaifer, Italian Foreign Affairs Minister Luigi Di Maio and European Commissioners for Internal Affairs, Ylva Johansson, and for Neighbourhood Enlargement, Oliver Varhelyi, in Tunis on August 17, 2020 | Photo: ANSA/Press Office Farnesina
Large numbers have fled Tunisia for Italy and Malta | Photo: Mehdi Chebil