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UN Security Council Authorizes Operations to Disrupt Migrant Smuggling of Coast of Libya

Migrants at a detention centre in the city of Zawiya, Libya. Photo: Mathieu Galtier/IRIN

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–9 October 2015 – Acting to help “save the threatened lives of migrants or of victims of human trafficking” and to disrupt criminal enterprises operating on the high-seas off the coast of Libya, the United Nations Security Council today authorized for one year operations by the European Union (EU) and individual countries to inspect and or seize vessels of suspected…

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