About 6,000 migrants arrived on the Italian coast in five days and the numbers are set to increase in the coming hours. It is the alarm raised by the International Organisation for Migration in Geneva. “6,021 migrants and refugees have made the perilous journey across the Mediterranean from last Tuesday,” said IOM spokesman Joel Millman adding that 174 of these people are landed in Greece.
The High Representative for European Foreign Policy , Federica Mogherini, is now aboard the aircraft carrier Cavour of the Italian Navy for his first visit to the European Commission EuNavforMed ‘Sophia’ to combat the smuggling in the Sicilian Channel.
“Let’s try frustration and shame on the walls that we see turn up in Europe, but we should feel pride for this Italy and this Europe that save lives,” said Mogherini. “It is not raising
walls that runs a phenomenon that will bypass them or bring down, “he added.
” I will propose Monday in Luxembourg the ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defence of the EU to broaden the mission EunavforMed to Libyan waters, though the Libyan government he asks of us. I have already spoken with Prime Minister Fayez Al Sarraj ‘, who will speak on the phone, then announced Mogherini.
“In the sea there is only one law: those in need to be saved. And we have saved over 15 thousand people, “the admiral said Enrico Credendino, mission commander, shortly before the ceremony dell’ammaina flag on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Cavour, on patrol in the Strait of Sicily.
“We work very close to the Libyan territorial waters preventing smugglers to cross them, otherwise arresteremmo them, and subtracting resources to preventing this traffic replicating the wooden barges to reuse them and neutralizing them,” he added, explaining the mandate of the so-called ‘phase 2′ the mission established after the tragic sinking of another of about a year ago with hundreds of victims. With the ‘Phase 3′ ‘could operate in Libyan waters, but to do so serves a request of the Libyan government and a UN resolution, “concluded Admiral.
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