Italy remains the only country still to keep its word to take in 50 migrants who arrived in Malta on board the Lifeline in late June as this morning another group left for Ireland.
In a tweet, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said only one country has not yet taken in the migrants it promised. No nations were mentioned, but with another seven nations accepting their share, only Italy remains to receive Lifeline migrants.
Malta will also be settling some of the migrants as part of a nine-nation deal brokered by Prime Minister Joseph Muscat.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte had promised Muscat that Italy would accept some migrants rescued in the MV Lifeline stand-off. In all, 234 migrants were rescued.
The MV Lifeline was given permission to dock only after the Maltese government reached a one-off deal with eight other European countries to jointly relocate the migrants.
Upon entering Malta, the ship was impounded and its captain was taken to court.
France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Norway and Belgium had already taken in some of the migrants brought aboard the ship.
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