NATO defense ministers decided to send a mission to the alliance Aegean Sea to fight the crisis, migration, above all, trying to stop people smugglers – said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
Group ships of NATO will receive the task of monitoring the influx of refugees over the Aegean Sea – said on Thursday in Brussels Stoltenberg.
Group 2 ships of NATO
He stressed that Europe is faced with the biggest crisis of migration since the end of world war II, driven by conflicts and instability in the south, as well as by criminal organizations involved in human smuggling. He said that NATO agreed on Thursday to send warships to the Aegean Sea at the request of Germany, Turkey and Greece.
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– Fixed group # 2 NATO ships (ang. Standing NATO Maritime group 2) is currently in the region under the leadership of Germany. Will it ordered to carry out the diagnosis, monitoring and surveillance of illegal movements in the Aegean Sea in cooperation with the relevant authorities and in liaison with the EU Agency for. Border security Frontex – said Stoltenberg at a press conference.
He added that he agreed too, that the Greek armed forces will not operate on territorial waters and airspace of Turkey and vice versa.
According to Stoltenberg supreme command of NATO forces in Europe immediately will order ships moving on the Aegean Sea and begin exploration operations. Its details are to prepare the military and the NATO states will consider how to strengthen the mission.
area, which usually operates with Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 is the Mediterranean Sea. Currently, it consists of three ships, but – as he said Stoltenberg – several members of NATO declared already that they are able to send it in the near future their ships.
– It is not about to stop or turn back boats with refugees. NATO will be shared key information to help in the fight against trafficking and criminal organizations. We will also work with national coast guards and the European Union – said the secretary general of NATO.
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Preview NATO involvement in the fight against people smugglers in the Aegean Sea has welcomed the European Commission. – These ten kilometers that separate the coast of Turkey and the Greek islands should not be a paradise for smugglers. We hope that NATO’s decision will mean that, in the Aegean Sea will be people rescued, and border control will be strengthened – said on Thursday the European Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas. He added that it should be made for cooperation between NATO forces and already operating in the Aegean EU operation Poseidon, led by Frontex.
Germany, Greece and Turkey together
The proposal involvement of NATO forces in the fight smugglers of people in the Aegean Sea slid Germany and Turkey after Monday’s meeting in Ankara Chancellor Angela Merkel and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. Turkey is a refugee from Syria, the most important country of destination and transit on the way to the West. When you try to reach Greece only from the beginning of this year, more than 340 people drowned. Many of them used the services of smugglers band.
On Wednesday at a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels on refugees raised Turkey, supported by Germany, and later Greece. These countries are in favor of sending warships to the eastern Mediterranean, and in particular the Aegean Sea to obstruct gangs smuggling people into Europe. The mission is to be a lookout.
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Author: Adso MTOM / PAP
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