NATO is committed to helping the European Union in its fight against illegal migration, and thus will support the EU in the Aegean Sea and also send ships, aircraft to central Mediterranean that will arrive to the location in the next 2 weeks, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday.
“Within 2 weeks there will be NATO assets in the central Mediterranean ready to provide support to the EU operation Sofia, and we will have planes, maritime patrol aircraft, and we will have ships,” Stoltenberg said.
“When it comes to the Aegean activity, we have decided yesterday evening that we will continue NATO presence in the Aegean,” he continued.
[sputniknews.com]
27/10/16
“When it comes to the Aegean activity, we have decided yesterday evening that we will continue NATO presence in the Aegean,” he continued.
[sputniknews.com]
27/10/16
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Turkey is seeking an end to NATO's counter-migration mission in the Aegean Sea, telling the US-led alliance that the sharp drop in refugees trying to get to Greece means there is no longer a need for warships to patrol its coast...
ReplyDeleteTurkey's Defence Minister Fikri Isik told his NATO colleagues at a dinner on Wednesday that Ankara no longer saw a need for the mission to continue beyond the end of December, according to two people briefed on the exchanges.
On Thursday, Isik told reporters in Brussels: "This was a temporary mission, and the goal has been reached in this temporary mission. There is no need to extend it further." Germany's defence minister, Ursula von der Leyen, whose country currently leads the maritime mission, said the Aegean mission was secure until Dec. 31. Asked what could happen in 2017, she said: "We will have to see then"...REUTERS..asiaone.com