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Council wants mandate of EUNAVFOR Med Sophia prolonged and extended

Brussels, 23/05/2016 (Agence Europe) - At their meeting in Brussels on Monday 23 May, the foreign affairs ministers of the EU member states approved the proposal to prolong the mandate of the EU's naval operation in the Mediterranean, EUNAVFOR Med Sophia, by a year and to assign it two new tasks.

Underlining in their conclusions, the need to build the capacity of the EUNAVFOR Med Sophia operation in order to disrupt the business model of the traffickers and the smuggler networks, and to...