Spain has offered to take some of around 150 migrants on board a rescue ship that has been blocked from docking in Italy, the government in Rome ...
But a Rome administrative court ruled on Wednesday that the vessel, also called Open Arms, should be allowed to enter Italian territorial waters. The office of Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Thursday that Spain had expressed willingness to take some of the migrants once they had disembarked.
The Spanish government declined to comment but daily El Pais said three unnamed government sources had confirmed Spain's willingness to take in some of the migrants. The newspaper said the exact number that Spain would take had yet to be determined, under a broader deal in which France, Germany and others would also take part. Spain could end up taking in more than 10 per cent of the rescuees, El Pais said, without naming its source. A spokeswoman for the charity said on Thursday that the ship was anchored five miles off the Italian island of Lampedusa. Open Arms' founder Oscar Camps told reporters on Wednesday that the NGO would request medical evacuation for all those on board once the vessel was in Italian waters.
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