- Title: UN envoy visits migrants' centre in Libya's Tripoli
- Date: 19th May 2016
- Summary: TRIPOLI, LIBYA (MAY 19, 2016) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF CONVOY OF UN ENVOY MARTIN KOBLER ENTERING ABU SELIM MIGRANT DETENTION CAMP IN TRIPOLI VARIOUS OF KOBLER GREETING LIBYAN OFFICIALS VARIOS OF SECURITY AT MIGRANT DETENTION CAMP VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS AT DETENTION CAMP VARIOUS OF KOBLER TALKING TO MIGRANTS (SOUNDBITE) (English) UN LIBYA ENVOY, MARTIN KOBLER, SAYING: (WITH ARABIC TRANSLATION IN BETWEEN) "I wanted to see this DCIM detention centre (ARABIC TRANSLATION) because this human trafficking is a crime and Libya is a transit country. (ARABIC TRANSLATION) I am shocked by the many people who are here on a very small space. (ARABIC TRANSLATION) There are no toilets, there is no water, and people are sick. (ARABIC TRANSLATION) This is not a situation which is according to humanitarian standards. (ARABIC TRANSLATION) I'm glad to see that those who are here they want to return and they want to be repatriated. (ARABIC TRANSLATION) Now we help them to be repatriated." VARIOUS OF KOBLER TALKING TO MIGRANTS EXTERIOR OF DETENTION CENTRE SIGN READING (Arabic) "ABU SELIM DETENTION CENTRE" KOBLER'S CONVOY LEAVING DETENTION CENTER
- Embargoed: 3rd June 2016 23:33
- Keywords: Libya Tripoli UN envoy Martin Kobler migrants detention camp
- Location: TRIPOLI, LIBYA
- City: TRIPOLI, LIBYA
- Country: Libya
- Topics: Asylum/Immigration/Refugees
- Reuters ID: LVA0014IH6QFB
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- Story Text: The U.N. envoy to Libya Martin Kobler visited a migrant detention camp in Tripoli on Thursday (May 19).
Describing the migrants' living conditions as below basic humanitarian standards, Kobler said many of them wanted to be repatriated.
"This human trafficking is a crime... I am shocked by the many people who are here on a very small space. There are no toilets, there is no water, and people are sick. This is not a situation which is according to humanitarian standards," Kobler said.
"I'm glad to see that those who are here they want to return and they want to be repatriated. No we help them to be repatriated," he added.
The breakdown of order in Libya, where human traffickers have taken advantage of the turmoil to pack people fleeing war and poverty into unseaworthy boats, has contributed to Europe's worst migration crisis since World War Two.
The West is counting on the unity government, which arrived in late March, to tackle armed violence, Islamic State militants and stop flows of migrants across the Mediterranean.
European officials are worried about large numbers of would-be migrants building up in Libya, but say the volatility there precludes the kind of deal struck with Turkey to block last year's main entry point to Europe via Greece.
Libya's new leaders still lack effective control over the capital Tripoli, and the country's coast guard has struggled in the past to patrol its waters. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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