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EU Launches Operation to Counter Human Traffickers
Date: 6/22/2015 9:03:58 AM Sender: VOA
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Migrants rest after disembarking from the British assault ship HMS Bulwark at the Sicilian port of Catania after being rescued at sea, Italy, June 8, 2015.

The European Union announced Monday it launched a naval operation targeting human traffickers and smugglers carrying migrants across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe.

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini told reporters in Luxembourg that the mission will first involve gathering information and patrolling international waters to try to detect and monitor smuggling networks. She stressed that the goal is to disrupt the work of the smugglers who take migrants on the dangerous journey that has left 2,000 of them dead this year.

"Let me be very clear, the targets are not the migrants. The targets are those that are making money on their lives and, too often, on their deaths," Mogherini said. "It is part of our effort to save lives," said Mogherini.

European officials have been working to figure out how to cope with the influx of more than 100,000 migrants this year, most of whom have landed in Greece and Italy after fleeing war, poverty and political persecution at home.

Another proposed phase of the EU operation would extend into the territory of Libya, which is one of the main departure points. But that would require approval from Libyan authorities and the United Nations Security Council.


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