Libya unveils plan to cut migration in talks with EU ministers

The head of Libya's UN-backed Government of National Unity announced a plan to reduce the flow of migrants to the European Union in talks with EU ministers on Tuesday, according to reporting by AFP.  During talks in Tripoli, with the EU’s commissioner for internal affairs and migration, Magnus Brunner and interior ministers of Italy and Malta, Matteo Piantedosi and Byron Camilleri, as well as Greek Migration Minister Thanos Plevris, Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dbeibah said that "a huge national campaign is going to be rolled out with the support of several friendly countries to combat the trafficking of human beings." Interior Minister Imad Trabelsi said Libya has between three and four million migrants who have entered the North African country illegally and whom "we encourage to leave".