Italian Prime minister Giuseppe Conte (pictured)  said any foreign military intervention in Libya would not resolve the conflict in its former colony, warning that it might trigger a refugee exodus across the Mediterranean.

“A military option cannot be a solution,” Conte told daily Il Fatto Quotidiano newspaper in an interview published on April 13.

This week Interior Minister Matteo Salvini  said he would not “stand by” if France were to block peace in Libya.
“If there were economic interests behind the chaos in Libya, if France blocked a European initiative to bring peace, if that were true, I won’t stand by and watch,” he said on Italian radio.
“Also because the Italians would pay the consequences“.
Salvini said “if someone for business (interests) plays war, they’ve found the wrong minister in me“.