Libyan minister urges EU not to return refugees to Mideast
The foreign minister of Libya's Western-backed unity government is urging European nations to find solutions to the refugee crisis other than pushing migrants to countries outside the EU.
Libya is embroiled in factional violence that excludes it from any EU list of "safe countries" for migrant returns.
Other North African countries, however, have reached agreement with the EU to receive rejected asylum-seekers. Mohammed Taher Siyala criticized any attempts to "export responsibilities and burdens ... as a result of illegal migration by dumping them on our shoulders and other countries."
