(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 20 - "Italy contributes with responsibility to the moral and legal duty of solidarity, assistance and reception of refugees, ensuring full support to the United Nations High Commissioner and promoting an incisive and solidary commitment in the field of migration in European offices and asylum.
Action in favor of refugees must be strengthened now, in moments of accentuated crisis, according to that multilateral approach, of which Italy is a historic and convinced supporter ".
Thus the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, in a declaration on the occasion of the World Refugee Day.
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