In 2008 Italy and Libya signed a friendship treaty with the aim of seeking to turn page on 40 years of bad relationships between the two Mediterranean countries. According to the treaty, Libya would work to stop illegal migrants embarking from its shores.
Unfortunately, as it is known, the deal was suspended in 2011 after the Libyan dictator, Muammar Qaddafi, was forced from power. And after Muammar Qaddafi was killed in 2011, smugglers began to send thousands of migrants across the Mediterranean sea to the Italian shores.
Nowadays Italy and Libya are reactivating the friendship treaty signed ten years ago, as the co-operation between the two countries is essential to resolve the immigration emergency and avoid human tragedies.
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