Italy announced on Friday November 4 that it had assigned a safe port to a ship from the German NGO SOS Humanity to check the state of health of the 179 migrants it rescued in the Mediterranean Sea, announced the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The Humanity 1 ship was heading for the Sicilian port of Catania on Friday evening.
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It will be able to stay in our territorial waters for the time necessary for us to examine all the emergencies on board
", declared Antonio Tajani during a press conference in Rome.