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"Mr President, the issue of the situation of migrants in Libya is certainly not a new one. I remember how, not that long ago, when Colonel Gaddafi was still in power, the European Union was attempting to negotiate an absolutely shameful agreement with Gaddafi so that he would keep the migrants in his country, even though we were aware of the awful conditions to which they were subjected.
The fault certainly does not lie with the new Libyan Government, which has just been elected, but rather with the absence of any legislation, structure, culture or institutions supporting the protection of migrants.
Today, their situation is worse than ever: they are persecuted by ex-rebel groups
. Our aim is genuinely to suggest to this new government that we should work with them, side by side. It is up to it to create an institutional framework and to us, the European Union – and here I appeal to Commissioner Rehn and the High Representative – to work with the Libyan authorities to ensure that migrants are treated decently this time and that a distinction is made between asylum seekers and refugees and migrants working in Libya. This is an urgent humanitarian issue, in the best sense of the word."@en1
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