Convention to Genoa of the Young Groups of Federagenti and Confitarma on the rescues of the migrants in the Mediterranean



In these days the Italian government has sped up the EU commission to assume initiatives in immigration topic taking note of the gravity of the situation in the Mediterranean, exhortation in the within of which the executive also would have shown the possible prohibition of landing place in the Italian ports to the ships not clappers Italian of the not governmental organizations that operate services of aid in sea. Yesterday on this topic near the center of the Harbour office of Genoa, in the within of Genoa Shipping Week, the week of events on the economy and the culture of the organized sea from the association of the genoese shipping agents Assagenti, the convention "sea Safety of life in the Channel of Sicily" has been carried out on the operations of rescue of Guard Costiera and organized Marina Mercantile from the Group Young of Federagenti and the Group Young of Confitarma.

The admiral inspector Giovanni Pettorino, commander of the Harbour office of Genoa, has to trace a budget, dramatic, of the carried out action daily from the Body of the Harbours-office in the work of rescue and recovery in sea of the migrants and has emphasized as the adhesion of Italy to the Solas Convention on the protection of the human life in sea and to the Convention of Montego Bay on the right of the sea they return complex and of difficult performance every hypothesis of progressive "Italian freeing" from the operations of rescue and also of block of the Italian ports.

According to the data supplied from Pettorino, in fact the Italy, whose means not only supervise on territorial waters, but also on those of the coastal countries of Africa, is found to take part on a total area of beyond million and 100,000 squared kilometers, pairs more of the half of the extension of the Mediterranean sea. And the forecast for this year is of a total flow of migrants who will disembark in advanced Italy to the 200,000 units.

As the young president of the Group of Federagenti has remembered, Simone Carlini, solos in the first quadrimestre of this year have been the 35,000 migrants who have reached the Italian coasts, with an esteem at least thousand people who us have not made and that they have remained victims of shipwrecks.

In the course of the convention Body of aid of the Order of Malta) in the rescue operations is illustrated also the active involvement of the doctors of the Cisom (and is raised by Valeria Novella (Confitarma) problematic also economic the less and less sustainable ones of the Italian shipowners called to participate with mercantile ships to the rescue operations.