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An Italian official of Doctors Without Borders (NGO), requested that a ship owned by Doctors Without Borders (NGO) assign a safer port near the area where it rescued 73 migrants, an NGO official said on Sunday (8 January).

The interior ministry of Italy did not comment on this issue.

This dispute is part of a larger tug-of-war among Italy's right-wing government, NGOs, and others over where to disembark the migrants that were saved from the Mediterranean sea.

On Saturday (7 January), Doctor Without Borders' ship Geo Barents was granted permission by Rome to dock at Ancona port. This is on central Italy's east coast and far from Sicily, where NGO boats usually disembark rescued migrants.

"The interior ministry denied our request for a safer port to disembark the Geo Barents' 73 survivors." Doctors Without Borders Mission Head Juan Matias Gil said in a Sunday message that the ship was heading north.

Geo Barents, who had rescued migrants from a rubber boat in offshore Libya, asked for a port closer to Ancona. He said it would take more than three days, as the weather was deteriorating.

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