Romania To Receive Migrants Blocked On Humanitarian Ship

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced on Wednesday that migrants aboard the Sea Watch 3 ship will be disembarked “within hours”.

The Italian chief of cabinet announced that the country reached an agreement to distribute the migrants across Luxembourg, Germany, France, Portugal, Romania and Malta, according to Corriere della Sera.

Italy’s ruling North League party initially did not want to allow the migrants to disembark in the country, but ultimately ceded on the condition that they will be received by other EU member states.

Conte did not announce the exact distribution of the migrants among the states who will receive them. Forty-seven extra-EU migrants saved from the Mediterranean are currently onboard Sea Watch 3.

Romania’s Foreign Affairs Ministry announced at the beginning of January that it is ready to receive five migrants from ships which were refused access to Italian or Maltese docks.