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Mayday from Italy to EU: the European agency Frontex sends back-up forces to Lampedusa

Lampedusa, Italy - The phenomenon has a Community relevance

Following to the formal request for assistance by the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Franco Frattini, Frontex, the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union, declared itself ready to plunge into this new so called “Mission Frontex” in Lampedusa against the illegal migration from Tunisia. The extraordinary mig...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1125910
Rome, Italy, 02/16/2011 16:13
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