UN to allow inspections of vessels suspected of smuggling migrants off Libya

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The UN Security Council decided to renew for one year, its authorization allowing Member States to inspect vessels on the high seas off the coast of Libya, as long as there are reasonable grounds for suspicion that they are being used for smuggling migrants or human trafficking.

The 15-member Council condemned all acts of migrant smuggling and human trafficking into, through and from the territory, and off the coast, of Libya.

Thus, the Council decided to renew, for 12 months, a set of...

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