Tunisia / Rome .- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, visited Tunis on Monday to address the influx of illegal immigrants to Italy with his Tunisian counterpart, Beyi Essebsi Caid, who, despite the willingness to cooperate shown, failed to a deal. Following his meeting with Tunisian Prime Minister, Berlusconi said that the signing of cooperation agreement between the two countries must still wait and it is expected that tomorrow the Italian owner Interior, Roberto Maroni (also found on Monday in Tunis), return to country North African to "verify the results" of the commission working on the text.
"Even now there is an absolute willingness on both sides to find a solution that will control the direction of the coast. We give you our support in terms of means of land and sea for the efficient control," said Berlusconi an appearance before the press in Tunisia. It is possible a solution to the issue of repatriation, "we're working on.
There is willingness on the part of the Tunisian Government and there is our desire to do so absolutely civic" he added. Given the more than 22,000 illegal immigrants, mostly Tunisians, who have reached the shores of Italy so far in 2011, the Italian chief executive on Monday to Tunisia proposed the repatriation of about one hundred immigrants a day, in return for aid to foster economic reintegration into the North African country.
"We know that an emergency exists and that it is a difficult time for the Tunisian economy, with young people who look to Europe and the other side of the Mediterranean to try to create a new life where there is democracy and freedom, and this is understandable," said Berlusconi. "We appreciated the responsibility that you have contracted to take the country's government in the historic step of democracy.
Now we have offered our fullest cooperation, our experience and our traditions. We wish success to heart, because you do something worthwhile" he said to the Tunisian authorities. He explained that the current situation on the Italian island of Lampedusa has improved following the transfer of much of the undocumented to other parts of Italy, but last night reported that landed more than 800 immigrants and that requires "other solutions." "The flow of young Tunisians seeking a new life of freedom and democracy we have created a problem on a small island of 5,000 inhabitants and Lampedusa, with a flow of immigrants far exceeding the number of people," said Berlusconi.
While the Italian government commission is working in Tunisia for a deal with the Tunisian authorities, Berlusconi is already thinking about next bilateral summit on immigration to France, which still has no date and which is intended to involve the owners of Internal Affairs and economy.
"There are problems with other countries in Europe, where many immigrants want to go final. We have the opportunity to discuss and resolve this in a positive way in the Italian-French summit," he said. This meeting, he added, "will serve to find solutions in this direction, since many immigrants have expressed their desire to move to a French speaking country to be reunited with family and friends.
Is a problem that arises from this human tsunami that occurred and there is yet. " Berlusconi acknowledged the efforts made by the Tunisian authorities to deal with the arrival in the country of some 150,000 people fleeing the conflict in neighboring Libya, a humanitarian emergency for which Italy is ready to offer assistance.
After a weekend of continued shipments of immigrants to other parts of Italy, the reception center in Lampedusa is now home to 1,200 undocumented, compared with about 6,200 that were in the island last Wednesday, in which Berlusconi visited the site. Among immigrants, almost entirely from Tunisia, there are hundreds of children, which in the coming hours will be transferred to shelters in several Italian regions, including the north. 
"Even now there is an absolute willingness on both sides to find a solution that will control the direction of the coast. We give you our support in terms of means of land and sea for the efficient control," said Berlusconi an appearance before the press in Tunisia. It is possible a solution to the issue of repatriation, "we're working on.
There is willingness on the part of the Tunisian Government and there is our desire to do so absolutely civic" he added. Given the more than 22,000 illegal immigrants, mostly Tunisians, who have reached the shores of Italy so far in 2011, the Italian chief executive on Monday to Tunisia proposed the repatriation of about one hundred immigrants a day, in return for aid to foster economic reintegration into the North African country.
"We know that an emergency exists and that it is a difficult time for the Tunisian economy, with young people who look to Europe and the other side of the Mediterranean to try to create a new life where there is democracy and freedom, and this is understandable," said Berlusconi. "We appreciated the responsibility that you have contracted to take the country's government in the historic step of democracy.
Now we have offered our fullest cooperation, our experience and our traditions. We wish success to heart, because you do something worthwhile" he said to the Tunisian authorities. He explained that the current situation on the Italian island of Lampedusa has improved following the transfer of much of the undocumented to other parts of Italy, but last night reported that landed more than 800 immigrants and that requires "other solutions." "The flow of young Tunisians seeking a new life of freedom and democracy we have created a problem on a small island of 5,000 inhabitants and Lampedusa, with a flow of immigrants far exceeding the number of people," said Berlusconi.
While the Italian government commission is working in Tunisia for a deal with the Tunisian authorities, Berlusconi is already thinking about next bilateral summit on immigration to France, which still has no date and which is intended to involve the owners of Internal Affairs and economy.
"There are problems with other countries in Europe, where many immigrants want to go final. We have the opportunity to discuss and resolve this in a positive way in the Italian-French summit," he said. This meeting, he added, "will serve to find solutions in this direction, since many immigrants have expressed their desire to move to a French speaking country to be reunited with family and friends.
Is a problem that arises from this human tsunami that occurred and there is yet. " Berlusconi acknowledged the efforts made by the Tunisian authorities to deal with the arrival in the country of some 150,000 people fleeing the conflict in neighboring Libya, a humanitarian emergency for which Italy is ready to offer assistance.
After a weekend of continued shipments of immigrants to other parts of Italy, the reception center in Lampedusa is now home to 1,200 undocumented, compared with about 6,200 that were in the island last Wednesday, in which Berlusconi visited the site. Among immigrants, almost entirely from Tunisia, there are hundreds of children, which in the coming hours will be transferred to shelters in several Italian regions, including the north.
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