(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 28 - Italy's deal with Albania to process thousands of migrants picked up by navy ships in pre-removal centres under Italian jurisdiction in the Balkan country can be a model for other countries, Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said Tuesday on the sidelines of the conference for the Global Alliance against Trafficking in Brussels, which is attended by 57 countries.
    Under the Memorandum of Understanding, signed by premiers Giorgia Meloni and Edi Rama earlier this month, the two centres to be set up will be able to process up to 36,000 migrants a year who have been rescued by Italian navy, coast guard and police vessels and who do not include the elderly, vulnerable, children or pregnant women.
    Piantedosi said: "That the Memorandum with Albania could also be a model for other countries is not something I am explicitly saying, but I have heard it said here, even in the informal discussions I am having with colleagues, with the members of a forum like this.
    "There is great attention towards Italy's initiative, there is great interest precisely in the logic that it could be a pilot model". (ANSA).