Tunisia: Kais Saied meets Italian Interior Minister Piantedosi

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi on Monday commended Tunisia's "significant effort" against irregular migration, during a visit to the North African country, his office said in a statement.

In a meeting with his Tunisian counterpart Kamel Feki, Piantedosi expressed his "full appreciation for the significant effort made by Tunisia to guard its maritime and land borders, to fight the networks of traffickers and confiscate their boats, to rescue migrants at sea", according to the Italian interior ministry. Piantedosi also met with Tunisian President Kais Saied, who argued migration "cannot be solved by an exclusively security approach", the presidency said in a statement.