Never as much as this year had there been as much cooperation between the Italian and Maltese authorities to save lives, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said this morning.

Referring to a report by Amnesty International, published yesterday, in which the organisation blamed Malta’s unwillingness to take more migrants as one of the causes that might be leading to loss of lives, Dr Muscat said Amnesty was putting pressure on the wrong countries.

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