Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte confirmed on Thursday night that six EU countries had agreed to take in the migrants from the Open Arms. The ship had been prevented docking by Italy, despite the health problems of many of the migrants on board.

The migrants have been stranded on the Spanish charity ship Open Arms since it picked them up off Libya in early August, and Rome’s far-right interior minister, Matteo Salvini, refused to allow them to disembark.

The migrants will be shared out among France, Germany, Romania, Portugal, Spain and Luxembourg, Conte said in an open letter to Salvini in which he accused the minister of disloyalty and being “obsessed” with closing Italy’s ports to migrants.