MOSCOW. Dec 12 (Interfax) - Tripoli has called on the European Union to help control Libya's southern border, through which immigrants from Central Africa infiltrate the country and then go to Europe, Foreign Minister Mohamed Siala of the Libyan Government of National Accord said.
"The illegal migration problem can be resolved in a number of ways, including through interaction with the EU. The EU should play a very important role here as concerns providing assistance to Libya in controlling the southern border, which is very long," Siala said at a press conference following talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Tuesday.
"The presence of Libya's coast guards in the Mediterranean is not enough to prevent illegal migration," he said.