France Summons Italian Envoy Over Di Maio Africa Comments: Govt Source

Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published January 22, 2019 | 12:19 AM

France has summoned Italy's ambassador to protest about comments by Italian Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio who accused Paris of continuing to colonise Africa and causing people to migrate from the continent, a government source told AFP

Paris, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 21st Jan, 2019 ) :France has summoned Italy's ambassador to protest about comments by Italian Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio who accused Paris of continuing to colonise Africa and causing people to migrate from the continent, a government source told AFP.

The ambassador was summoned Monday after the "unacceptable and groundless" comments by Di Maio on Sunday, a source in the cabinet of France's Europe Minister Natalie Loiseau told AFP on condition of anonymity.