Seven EU member States agree on the inclusion of Sea-Watch-refugees

In the dispute about the reception of refugees on Board the rescue ship, Sea-Watch-3 the Italian government has reached an agreement with six other European countries. The Sea-Watch-3 had the migrants on 19. January off the coast of Libya included, but Rome refused the ship entry into an Italian port. The obstruction of rescue missions on the Route had fatal consequences, according to a new report by the UNHCR shows. the

The migrants on Board the blocked rescue ship, the German aid organization, the Sea-Watch may after almost two weeks on Land. Seven EU countries had agreed to the inclusion of migrants willing to, said Italy's Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte on Wednesday. In the coming hours, therefore, the migrants could go to the country. In addition to Germany, Italy, Malta, Romania, Luxembourg, Portugal and France, want the Refugees from the ship.

The Sea-Watch-3 had 47 immigrants in the 19th century. January Libya. Including several minors were aged, on Board 22 crew members. The sanitary conditions deteriorated in the past few days tremendously. The ship was several days before the Sicilian coast at the Syracuse anchor, but couldn't enter the port. Where the migrants go to the country and whether the ship in Syracuse is allowed to create, was initially unclear. Italy's right-wing interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, had insisted that the migrants are brought into the Netherlands or to Germany as the Sea-Watch-3 sails under the Dutch flag and a German NGO.

On the Route, the death rate from 2017 to 2018 has risen almost three-fold

The populist government in Rome has denied since its inauguration in the summer of last year, already several rescue the entrance of ships into the ports of the country. It insists on a uniform distribution of the migrants on the countries of the EU. However, the EU is unable to agree for years. "Distribution issues must be resolved on Land, and even if it should now give you a solution, it remains a moral and a political Declaration of bankruptcy by the EU States," said Sea Watch spokesman Ruben Neugebauer. Sea-Watch had also appealed to the European court of human rights complaint.

Italy and the EU to support guard the Libyan coast, in order for these migrants in distress at sea back in the civil war in the country. Serious ill-treatment.

As the refugee Agency UNHCR announced on Wednesday, have reached the deadly dangers of the escape over the Mediterranean sea in alarming proportions. A particularly drastic development between Libya and the EU countries of Malta and Italy, the UNHCR said in Geneva. There the death rate rose to almost three times: during 2017, a Migrant for all 38 of the new arrivals came to the lake died, it was in the past year, a dead all 14 of the comers. Probably the limitation of the Search - and-rescue have contributed to the missions, the UNHCR.