President Meloni's day trip to the Middle East ended on Friday at Beirut's Rafiq Hariri Airport, where, unlike on her previous visit in March, she was willing to take questions from journalists. The topics of the day were the UNIFIL situation, the Lebanese crisis, the Gaza crisis and the issue of Syrian migrants.

We asked her what conditions should be set on the funds the European Union has allocated (and is set to double in 2025) to support the authorities in Cyprus and Lebanon in combating Syrian migration, given that, according to numerous reports – most recently that of Human Rights Watch on September 4 – these authorities are guilty of violating the human rights of migrants. The premier, with something of an embarrassed smile, said she was not aware of either the reports or the violations.

“Unfortunately, I’m not familiar with the reports and I'm not in a position to comment on something I don't know about. I haven’t had an in-depth look,” she said.

On Thursday, a summit was held in Brussels at which one of the topics was a possible return of Bashar al-Assad's Syria to the international diplomatic circuit. Back in June, France had issued an arrest warrant for the Syrian president for war crimes.

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