“Libya needs a lot of means to control immigration. Libya is not the border guard of Europe,” he told a news conference.
Abdelali called upon Europe and neighboring countries to help deal with the flow of immigrants.
He specifically asked for help to rehabilitate 19 detention centers and a system of border surveillance.
The regime of slain dictator Muammar Qaddafi used immigration as a means to pressure the West.
A year ago, he called for 5 billion Euros annually for the European Union to stop the trafficking.
For years, Libya has been a destination and a transit country to European shores for hundreds of thousands of African immigrants.
Source: AFP
