(Adds government statement)

The Nationalist Party has called on the Prime Minister to call a meeting of the Citizenship Monitoring Committee.

In a statement, the PN said that the committee, set up last year, had never met and was not functioning.

Party leader Simon Busuttil said Prime Minister Joseph Muscat should give a detailed account of all citizenship applications submitted so far for the sake of transparency.

In a reply, the government said a committee meeting will be called in due time.

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