Dead are “provoked” – stamp against preferential treatment of boat refugees
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“We’ll have to talk about ‘Sophia’ again anyway”
– – Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas believes it is necessary to rethink the “Sophia” EU rescue mission in the Mediterranean. The EU is currently limited to training the Libyan coast guard, but no longer has its own ships on site. – –
– In the debate about the admission of boat refugees, Joachim Stamp made his point clear: he did not want individual groups to be privileged in the asylum procedure. Foreign Minister Heiko Maas believes it is necessary to speak about the EU rescue mission. – – – JJoachim Stamp (FDP), the North Rhine-Westphalian Minister of Integration, has spoken out against a preferred admission of boat refugees according to a media report. “Those who prefer to accept boat refugees provoke that even more people are hoping for a better life in the lottery for life and death in the Mediterranean,” said Stamp dem “Cologne City Gazette”, In the past, several municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia had declared their willingness to accept additional refugees from the Mediterranean and had joined the initiative “Pier – creates safe havens”. With the initiative founded in summer 2018, 120 German cities, municipalities and counties have shown solidarity. “We are clearly and unequivocally committed to our humanitarian responsibility in taking in refugees,” said the NRW minister. However, it had to be clear “that there can be no privileging of individual groups in the asylum procedure”. A spokesman for the Federal Ministry of the Interior had said in the past that Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) welcomed the willingness of numerous municipalities to accept them. In order to meet their wishes, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bamf) had been instructed since the beginning of the year to name the municipalities that were willing to accept the federal states so that those seeking protection could distribute there. The rescue of boat refugees is still a much discussed topic: Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas considers it necessary after the Berlin Libya conference to rethink the EU rescue mission “Sophia” in the Mediterranean. With regard to the refugee camps in the North African civil war country, he said on Sunday evening on the ARD: “I can not say that I think the conditions are inhumane, and then advocate that people be brought back there. We’ll have to talk about “Sophia” again anyway. “ The EU is currently restricting its mission to training the Libyan coast guard, but it no longer has its own ships on site that could save migrants heading for Europe from drowning across the Mediterranean. “I can not say that I think the situation is inhumane, and then advocate that people be brought back there”: Foreign Minister Heiko Maas Source: dpa / Bernd von Jutrczenka – – “We were already involved,” said Maas. With regard to the results of the Berlin conference on the settlement of the conflict, he added: “And I believe that with the process that has now started, this is one of the points where the European Union must also take responsibility . “Maas wants to talk about EU rescue mission in the Mediterranean
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