UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan participated yesterday in the International Conference on Development and Migration, which took place in the Italian capital, Rome.
During the conference the nations from the Mediterranean, Middle East and Africa agreed on steps to try to slow unauthorized migration and to tackle some of the pressures driving people to leave their homes and attempt to reach Europe.
Led by Meloni, the new alliance committed to crack down on people smuggling, but also to improve cooperation in areas such as renewable energy to fight climate change and improve the prospects of poorer nations.
The conference included participants from more than 20 countries who agreed to make funding available to support development projects in what Meloni said would be a “Rome Process” that would last for several years.
She welcomed UAE’s pledge to provide $100 million and said the next step would be to organize a donors conference.
Conference host Italy is struggling to cope with the number of unauthorized migrants arriving in centers such as its far southern island of Lampedusa. However, it also has an ageing and declining population and needs additional workers to support its economy.
Arrivals in Italy are surging this year with over 83,000 people coming ashore so far compared with around 34,000 in the same period in 2022.
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