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Yesterday met EU leaders in Brussels to agree on a number of measures that can alleviate the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean.
The measure probably going to be implemented First, according to the news council DPA, a tripling of the budget for operations Triton and Poseidon. These operations are essentially the EU border control operations respectively Italian and Greek waters.
But for Tritons part implies a tripling of the budget that the operation is still being modest compared with the Italians used in the now-defunct search and rescue operation Mare Nostrum, type NTB.
– mandate must expanded
An even bigger problem is still Tritons mandate, says Baber, director of Amnesty International in Norway.
– If the mandate, but only grants to Triton change, it anyway not good enough. Triton is more a border patrol than a rescue. What we need is a much bigger rescue, at least the size of Mare Nostrum, Amnesty International said Dagsavisen.
The ships participating in the action must also move much closer Libya and the North African coast than what is the case now for vessels that are part of Triton, after which many of shipwrecks happening there, emphasizes Egenæs.
– How Should Norway relate to this?
– Norway must work for a search and rescue mandate Triton, and not a patrolling mandate. People must be saved from the sea, responds Egenæs.
– Norway must also ensure that the ship have been decided to submit to the Mediterranean, instantly come off place. If it says on the ship to get changed and expanded Tritons mandate, should Norway offer to compete in several ships, he continues.
– Works to rent suitable boat
Also, NRC believes that it may be appropriate with several Norwegian civilian ships to the Mediterranean.
– It may that it is necessary in the long term, says senior adviser Paul Nesse.
Also, other countries in Europe must ask several boats and finance operations by themselves, he said.
– But first and foremost, we must get off the ship we have decided to send there, as soon as possible. It is good that Norway sends this ship says Fosse.
The decision this contribution was made by the government Wednesday, after it had been subjected to enormous pressure. Ministry of Justice informs Dagsavisen that they are working for “hiring a suitable boat” from “the Norwegian shipping environment.”
What is meant by “suitable” boat has not Dagsavisen gotten any answers . So far it is not clear how soon the ship could be ready for action, but the goal is “as soon as possible”, said Ministry of Justice.
In the degree suitable vessels are available at short notice a mission in the Mediterranean, has not NSA some overview, getting Dagsavisen enlightened.
The 143 members of the NSA disposes under 1,700 ships.
In addition, ships them which is not a member of the NSA. A large proportion of these ships would be unlikely to rescue refugees, after which many of them are gas tankers, chemical tankers and oil tankers.
Ships from other countries
Also, several other countries have said that they will contribute ships of various types, according to Amnesty International.
Among them are Ireland who will ask a navy ship and several other ships.
Germany will probably contribute with two frigates and 600 marines.
Britain sets with marine vessel HMS Bulwark, which may be equipped with three helicopters. Prime Minister David Cameron will also help with two smaller vessels to border patrol.
Belgium is also ready to contribute more boats and military resources to ensure border.
The EU put into effect operation Triton 1 November last year to support Italy’s rescue work. in the Mediterranean. Italy closed when its more extensive operation Mare Nostrum.
Mare Nostrum was terminated after critics, with the UK and Germany in the lead, argued that the salvage increased refugee flows, which a number of experts and activists contesting, according to NTB.
The Italian Interior Ministry command of Operation Triton in cooperation with the Coast Guard. It is the EU border agency Frontex coordinating the operation.
Tritons mandate is to help Italy to monitor the maritime boundaries and help people in need.
The action takes place in international waters, and not off the coast of Libya where most of the tragic ship abuses take place.
One minute silence
The EU Heads of State and Government initiated the extraordinary summit in Brussels with a minute’s silence for the around 800 people who drowned last weekend in the hitherto worst refugee disaster in the Mediterranean.
A few hours earlier, 24 of the victims of the shipwreck buried in Malta.
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