ROME- Italy is not proposing that the European Union should pay Libya to stop migrants leaving its shores for Europe, Prime Minister Mario Draghi's office said on Tuesday, denying a report in Italian media.
"At the moment there is no initiative regarding creating a similar deal to what was done with Turkey," an official in the prime minister's office told Reuters.
The official said the government's view was that the EU must give more attention to the situation in the southern Mediterranean and be ready to offer financial help to all African countries involved in migrant flows.
(Reporting By Gavin Jones; Editing by Crispian Balmer) ((gavin.jones@thomsonreuters.com; +39 06 8522 4232;))
