Pirates holding some crew of tanker off west Africa
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Pirates holding some crew of tanker off west Africa
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Pirates holding some crew of tanker off west Africa
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Op Irini asset approaches a vessel prior to hailing.
“Significant progress” en route to a political solution in Libya is, according to the UN and its international partners, welcome but has not seen any lessening of an arms embargo on the north African country.
This is primarily enforced by an EU naval task force in the Mediterranean Sea. Operation Irini is, as with other European bloc task forces, multi-national. In recent weeks vessels attached to it boarded and searched Panamanian and Sierra Leone registered ships to ensure the weapons and ammunition embargo is maintained. The Panama-flagged ship Medkom Izmir was inspected by crew of the French frigate Premier Maitre L’Her (F792) with the German naval replenishment vessel Berlin (A1411) doing the inspection of an unnamed vessel registered in Sierra Leone and reportedly en route to “a Libyan port” from Turkey.