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PONTUS and EUNAVFOR MED/SOPHIA are 2 completely different missions.
One is exclusively Irish (based on a MOU with the Italians I think) with an exclusively humanitarian mandate to rescue refugees from a dangerous journey as distressed mariners
SOPHIA is a EU mission which part of a comprehensive EU approach to stopping people smuggling, training Libyian personnel and enforcing the arms embargo on Libya.
Ireland is not a participant in SOPHIA (although no doubt they liase/deconflict with it)
Yeah it's a ferry service. The countries below should be the only mobs involved as they participated in the Libyan Airshow sorry I mean operation let's create another Somalia on Europe's doorstep.
NATO
Belgium
Bulgaria
Canada
Denmark
France
Greece
Italy
Netherlands
Norway
Romania
Spain
United Kingdom
United States
Jordan
Qatar
Sweden
So Italy doesn't want us to pick and choose which refugees we take? Surprising considering so many illegal eh immigrants entered using fake Italian identity documents.
For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.
As it begins its humanitarian mission in the Mediterranean, LÉ Eithne has a special cargo on board – 1,000 teddy bears for migrant children pic.twitter.com/Hhfl5y8IQZ
Its unusual that Eithne hasnt rescued any migrants after nearly two weeks on patrol, i wonder has something happened on the ground in libya to prevent the flow, She would normally be heading towards italy at this stage with her decks full.
No, if you scroll away down the fb page to a posting from 2nd or 4th of june i think, looks like drone view of rhib. ex off libya.
There were drone shots taken of the ship just before departure to the Mediterranean. There were recent drone shots, including one overhead of P31 on passage in AOP in or about 7th/8th June. In respect of the ship's usage, her actions are being controlled by Italian CG and it is conceivable they are being held on LAST Call or NOT at all due to political exigencies . The only other reason for a quiet theater, is that the departures from Libya have somehow been stopped.
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