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SLIDE 1 OF 25 IMMIGRATION BY SEA AN EPIC NEVER-ENDING STORY 1. THE ITALIAN COAST GUARD 2. AN EPIC NEVER-ENDING EXODUS 3. SEARCH & RESCUE BEYOND HAMBURG CONVENTION 4. CONCLUSIONS SLIDE 2 OF 25 THE ITALIAN COAST GUARD SLIDE 3 OF 25 THE

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1. THE ITALIAN COAST GUARD
2. AN EPIC NEVER-ENDING EXODUS
3. SEARCH & RESCUE BEYOND HAMBURG

CONVENTION

4. CONCLUSIONS

IMMIGRATION BY SEA

AN EPIC NEVER-ENDING STORY

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THE ITALIAN COAST GUARD

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THE ITALIAN COAST GUARD

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AN EPIC NEVER ENDING EXODUS

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1900

TODAY Their destiny…to die

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20000 40000 60000 80000 100000 120000 140000 160000 180000

Kossovo

Albanian Crisis Vlorë

Arab Spring

WHY AN EPIC NEVER ENDING STORY ?

MIGRANTS RESCUED AND ASSISTED

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Lampedusa Pantelleria Malta Trapani Cagliari Tunis

L I B Y A A L G E R I A

Pozzallo Porto Empedocle Tripoli Zuwarah Zilten Misratah Annaba La Galite Catania Siracusa Crotone Otranto Brindisi C I P R U S

E G Y P T

Alessandria Bengasi Mersin LIBYA 27.233 141.293 TURKEY 1.975 10.341 GREECE 1.943 1.508 TUNISIA 871 1.215 EGYPT 9.190 15.413 ALGERIA 24 155 OTHER FLOWS 1.689 86 MIGRANTS RESCUED AND ASSISTED FLOWS 2013 2014 C R E T A

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Up to 800 people on board a 50/70 m.

ship

No sufficient life saving appliances
No safety certificates
No professional crew on board
Sub standard ship

Would you allow this ship to depart from your ports or to transit in your territorial waters WITHOUT ANY CONCERN? IT IS AN HAZARD FOR THE PEOPLE ON BOARD AND FOR OTHER SHIPS !

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PORT STATE CONTROL A more effective port state control activity by countries of departure is needed in order to prevent the use of sub standard ships for illegal immigration

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SEARCH AND RESCUE beyond Hamburg SAR convention

THE NEED OF AN INTERNATIONAL EFFORT TO MANAGE AN EXTRAORDINARY

AND CONTINUOUS MASS RESCUE OPERATION THAT IS BEYOND HAMBURG SAR CONVENTION PROVISIONS

THE NECESSITY TO RELIEVE THE BURDEN THAT FALLS ON MERCHANT VESSELS

ENGAGED IN SAR OPERATIONS

THE NEED TO IMPROVE THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL FRAME ON SEARCH AND

RESCUE

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46,000 km of coastline and 22 Coastal State With its 8,000 Km of coast - Italy alone represents about the 16% of the Mediterranean coastline 2,500,000 km2 its total area

Mediterranean Sea:

Search and Rescue Regions (SRR) of the countries interested by migration flows 630.000 Km2 North Africa and Malta (green

line)

500,000 km2 Italian Search and Rescue

Region (Red line)

In 2014 Italy performed:

2.747 SAR OPS inside italian SRR ( almost always not connected with migration)
982 SAR OPS outside italian SRR (connected with migration flows)

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MOST OF THE SAR OPERATIONS

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20000 40000 60000 80000 100000 120000 140000 160000 27233 1943 1975 9190 871 24 141293 1508 10341 15413 1215 155

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18 October 2013 – 31 October 2014 110 M€ 9,5 M€ month From the 1°st November 2014 2,9 M€ month

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MIGRANT RESCUED AT SEA - 2014

MERCHANT VESSELS POLICE FORCES First two months of 2015: increase of 38% compared to the same period of 2014

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THE INVOLVMENT OF MERCHANT VESSELS IN A CONTINUOUS SAR OPERATION:

Security concerns: very high number of rescued people and low number
f crew members - riots risk
Safety Concerns: dangerous cargoes; logistic spaces; sanitary concerns
Commercial concerns: costs sustained by owners for voyage deviations

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20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 ALAND ANTIGUA E BARBUDA BAHAMAS BELGIO BELIZE BERMUDA CAMBOGIA CANADA CINA CIPRO CURACAO DANIMARCA EMIRATI ARABI UNITI FILIPPINE FINLANDIA FRANCIA GERMANIA GIBILTERRA GRECIA HONG KONG ISOLE CAYMAN ISOLE COOK ISOLE MAN ISOLE MARSHALL ISOLE PALAU ISRAELE ITALIA KUWAIT LIBANO LIBERIA LIBIA LITUANIA LUSSEMBURGO MADEIRA MALESIA MALTA MOLDAVIA NORVEGIA OLANDA PANAMA PORTOGALLO REGNO UNITO ROMANIA SAINT VINCENT E G. SINGAPORE SIERRA LEONE SPAGNA SRI LANKA SVEZIA SVIZZERA TANZANIA TOGO TUNISIA TURCHIA TUVALU UCRAINA USA VANUATU 2 19 22 1 22 2 1 1 3 26 3 14 1 3 0 13 6 6 34 12 7 3 3 44 1 1 170 2 3 82 5 1 5 1 1 94 9 24 8 70 1 18 15 50 5 1 2 1 1 3 12 8 22 1 3 2 12

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N° OF MIGRANTS ARRIVED ON THEIR OWN ON THE ITALIAN SHORE 3.473 N° OF MIGRANTS RESCUED AT SEA 166.538

TOTAL NUMBER OF MIGRANTS 170.011 98% 2% HOW TO MAKE THIS POSSIBLE ALSO IN THE NEAR FUTURE?

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THE RULES:

WHY BEYOND SAR CONVENTION?

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THE RULES

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Lampedusa Pantelleria Malta Trapani Cagliari Tunis

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Pozzallo Porto Empedocle Tripoli Zuwarah Zilten Misratah Annaba La Galite Catania Siracusa Crotone Otranto Brindisi C I P R O

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Alessandria Bengasi Mersin CRETA

FIRST RCC RCC BETTER ABLE TO ASSIST

ONLY ON THE SHOULDERS OF ITALY?

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WHAT CAN WE DO AS INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY?

TO ESTABLISH AND SUSTAIN A PERMANENT AND EFFICIENT SEARCH AND RESCUE

SYSTEM: A HUGE INTERNATIONAL SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATION IS ESSENTIAL

TO RELIEVE THE BURDEN THAT DAILY FALLS ON MERCHANT VESSELS: FINANCIAL AND

LEGAL MEASURES

TO ADEQUATE THE LEGAL FRAME ON SEARCH AND RESCUE: CONSIDERING THE

EXTRAORDINARY SITUATIONS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA

CONCLUSIONS

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