Italy has presented European
members of the United Nations Security Council with a draft
proposal for ways to combat migrant traffickers, Italian Foreign
Minister Paolo Gentiloni said in the Polish capital Wednesday.
The aim of the proposal is to obtain a "legal framework
allowing us to strike at migrant traffickers," he said.
Also on Wednesday, European sources said next Monday's
Security Council meeting will be a "first step" to assess what
kind of mandate might be needed for European operations against
migrant traffickers.
It is not likely that meeting will come up with a
resolution, the sources said.
European High Foreign Representative Federica Mogherini
will present a May 18 council of EU foreign ministers with
various security and defense options, as requested by an
extraordinary European summit held after a deadly April 18
Mediterranean shipwreck in which as many as 700 migrants were
feared dead.
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