(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 12 - Italy never leaves any endangered migrant at sea without a rescue effort, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Sunday after Alarm Phone accused Rome of deliberately delaying a rescue of a boatload of 47 migrants drifting off Libya, many of whom are feared to have dronwned when their dinghy capsized.
    ''We must never instrumentalise what happens", said Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Tajani, speaking to journalists before a Leonardo aerospace giant conference in Tel Aviv, where he is on a State visit.
    ''I am convinced, knowing the Coast Guard, the Italian Navy and the Guardia di finanza (tax police), that these men of the sea never leave anyone without rescue''.
    The minister added that he believed that ''we must always make a real analysis of what happens and never instrumentalise because we are talking about human lives''.
    "We are all committed to preventing these tragedies in the Mediterranean,'' he concluded. (ANSA).