“We can no longer allow our fishing boats, which legitimately fish in international waters, to be threatened or even seized by the Libyan authorities, as happened on 1 September 2020 by a Libyan patrol boat belonging to Haftar’s forces”. Thus the Undersecretary of Defense Stefania Pucciarelli calls for an immediate technical table between the ministries to define the international waters off the coasts of Cyrenaica.
“The Alpine frigate” of our Navy intervened this morning to rescue 7 Italian fishing boats threatened by the high-speed arrival of a rubber dinghy coming from the Cyrenaic coast. The Italian boats, which carried out fishing activities in international waters, have been made safe and are heading north, in the central Mediterranean, the undersecretary said.
After the visit of Prime Minister Draghi, on 6 April in Tripoli – he continues – the dialogue with the newly elected executive authorities of Libya has solidified, and today there are “the conditions to work on a possible agreement with Libya to define the perimeter of the international waters off the coasts of Cyrenaica “. The appeal goes to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to open a technical table with the other Ministries to define the text to be proposed to Libya.