Acknowledgment to Italian Guard Costiera for the aid to the migrants



Italian Guard Costiera has received attested of thanks and gratitude for the activities carried out in the operations of search and aid to the migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. Yesterday, in occasion of a visit to Centro Nazionale di Coordinamento of Marine Aid (MRCC) of Rome from a delegation of the Maritime Security Working Group of the European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA), the president of the Working Group of the association of the European shipowners, Jakob Paaske Larsen, has expressed appreciation and admiration for the efforts completed from the MRCC: "the collaboration with the navigation companies that are calls to assist the operations of search and aid - has explained - he is excellent. We have found that the efforts completed from Italy and the entire European Union in putting in field the Triton operation and other initiatives in the Mediterranean have remarkablly alleviated the pressure on the mercantile fleet. Regarding 2014, when the mercantile ships are involved in 25.2% of the operations of search and aid, with 882 ships diverted, of which 284 they have taken on board to migrants saving 41,061 people - it has specified Larsen - the difference with the involvement in 11% of operations SAR of 2015, with the rescue of 16.158 people, are remarkable. We confide that the tendency to a reduction of the necessity of assistance from the mercantile ships will continue".

Remembering that but the forecasts indicate that in the next few months the migratory flow through the Mediterranean Sea is destined to grow because of the reduction of the arrivals from Turkey to Greece, the closing of the Balkan route and the improvement of the meteorological conditions, Larsen has emphasized that "the shipowners have the obligation legal to help the people in danger in sea and we - has assured - will continue to answer to this we must legal and moral. However - it has added - our ships are not constructed neither equipped for these operations of search and aid on wide scale, neither the staff is trained for this and there are risks is for the migrants who for the crews of the ships, as risks for safety are faced, psychological health hazards, tensions, efforts physicists and impacts. We - he has concluded Larsen - emphasize with force the necessity of regulating the disembarkation of the migrants after a rescue operation and evidence that this would have to be assured from all the nations".

is turned also by the ambassadors of 38 nations Africans received yesterday from the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Graziano Delrio. In the course of a ceremony of delivery of a prize to Italy for its incessant action of aid in sea, .il dean of the diplomats of Africa, the ambassador of the Republic of the Congo, Mamadou Kamara Dekamo, on behalf of all the 38 nations, has express "deep gratefulness of our Countries to the men and the women of Italian Guard Costiera".