FILE PHOTO: Newly-elected leader of the Labour Party Robert Abela addresses the party congress ahead of a swearing-in ceremony to become the next Maltese Prime Minister, at the Corradino Sports Pavilion in Paola, Malta January 12, 2020. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi/File Photo
VALLETTA (Reuters) - Malta plans to keep 57 rescued migrants aboard a private ship anchored just outside territorial waters until the European Union finds a way to rehouse them, Prime Minister Robert Abela said on Friday.
The migrants were plucked from a dinghy earlier this week inside Malta's search and rescue zone by a commercial fishing vessel that had been chartered by the Maltese government to intercept possible asylum seekers.
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