Italy focuses on Libya mission to manage migrant crisis
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Italy is putting its hopes for managing the migrant crisis on a new, Libya-requested mission to support its coast guard, despite suffering a rebuke by humanitarian groups.
Italian government ministers are scheduled to brief parliamentary committees Tuesday on a mission approved by the Cabinet to deploy the Navy to aid the Libyan coast guard in its territorial waters.
Premier Paolo Gentiloni says the mission could become a "turning-point" in Italy's bid to manage unrelenting migrant flows. The U.N. migration agency says 94,445 migrants have arrived in Italy this year, through July 26, up 7 percent over last year.
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The government's bid to get about 10 humanitarian groups to sign on to new rules of conduct failed when at least four, including Doctors Without Borders, refused to sign.