Hundreds of people on board a migrant rescue boat from Libya have been stranded in the Mediterranean Sea between Italy and Malta in a standoff between the two nations, with both refusing to allow the vessel to dock, the AFP (Agence France-Presse) website reports today (June 10, 2018).
Some 629 people -- including pregnant women and scores of children -- are stuck aboard the French NGO's ship Aquarius, which is currently between Malta and Sicily waiting for a secure port.
Malta today reiterated its refusal to accept the ship, ignoring calls from Rome.
Italy's hardline interior minister Matteo Salvini -- in a joint statement with Danilo Toninelli, minister in charge of the Italian coastguard -- insisted that Malta "cannot continue to look the other way when it comes to respecting precise international conventions on the protection of human life."
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