British Royal Navy's Bulwark 'in south Med in a week'

(ANSA) - Brussels, April 24 - The British Royal Navy's Bulwark helicopter carrier will reach the southern Mediterranean within a week, British government sources said Friday.
    The ship will conduct "search and rescue" operations in collaboration with EU border agency Frontex and Italian authorities, but independently of the EU's Triton border patrol and rescue mission, they said. British Prime Minister David Cameron said Thursday the UK will help rescue people but won't allow migrants on its soil. "We offer...the Bulwark, three helicopters and two patrol boats, on condition those saved be taken to the nearest safe country - probably Italy - and that they won't request asylum in the UK," he said before an emergency EU summit on migration.