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EU: Refugee crisis: NATO Secretary General welcomes expansion of NATO deployment in the Aegean Sea

07 March 2016

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"NATO took swift decisions to deploy ships to the Aegean Sea to support our Allies Greece and Turkey, as well as the EU's border agency FRONTEX, in their efforts to tackle the migrant and refugee crisis. NATO ships are already collecting information and conducting monitoring in the Aegean Sea. Their activity will now be expanded to take place also in territorial waters."

See: NATO Secretary General welcomes expansion of NATO deployment in the Aegean Sea (NATO, link)

Some critical comments: NATO Expands Aegean Sea Migrant Patrols Into Turkish and Greek Territorial Waters – Rescued Migrants to Be Automatically Returned to Turkey (Migrants at Sea, link)

And see: Refugee crisis: latest news from across Europe (7.3.16)

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