French President Emmanuel Macron
has paid tribute to Spain's courage in the case of the Aquarius
and said the migrant-rescue ships should always go to the
nearest port, French government spokesperson Benjamin Griveaux
said after a cabinet meeting in Paris.
Griveaux said that Macron took time to "recall maritime
law", which he said states that it is "always the nearest coast
that assumes the responsibility to receive" asylum seekers.
"If a ship had France as its nearest coast, it could dock,
this is international law," he said.
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