The PM has said that a surge in migrant-boat arrivals to the island of Lampedusa has put Italy under “unsustainable pressure”.
In New York she dismissed criticism of the Memorandum of Understanding that the EU has signed with Tunisia for cooperation on stopping human traffickers using its coasts to launch migrant-boat departures.
Meloni was instrumental in bringing about the agreement.
“It’s important the memorandum with Tunisia is taken forward,” she said.
“It is a model to use with other nations too.”
Meloni said there was “great attention and awareness” about the migrant situation and “a lot of solidarity”.
“The problem is to see when, and to what degree, that solidarity will become concrete acts,” she added.
“That’s what I am interested in now.”
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