Open Arms Ship Rules Out Landing Migrants in Spanish Port

Open Arms Ship Rules Out Landing Migrants in Spanish Port
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19 August 2019
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The Open Arms rescue ship, which carries 107 people on board off Italy''s Lampedusa island, on Sunday rejected the offer from the Spanish Government to land at a port in this country due to humanitarian reasons.

The Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms, which operates the humanitarian vessel, rejected the proposal made on Sunday by the President of the Spanish Government Pedro Sanchez, to move to the port of Algeciras, given Italy's refusal.

Speaking to a local radio station, Proactiva Open Arms spokeswoman Laura Lanuza said that going to Algeciras, a pier in the southern autonomous community of Andalusia, is absolutely unfeasible.

Oscar Camps, director and founder of Proactiva Open Arms, posted on Twitter that the boat would take about five days to navigate almost 1,000 miles to reach that Andalusian port.

They want us to sail for about five more days to Algeciras, the farthest port in the Mediterranean Sea, with an unsustainable situation on board, Camps twitted.

'Seventeen days kidnapped on the Open Arms. We have been warning for days. The Italian Administrative Court ordered disembarkation and urgent assistance,' warned Camps, who lashed out the attitude by Italian far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini.

Sanchez's social democratic administration proposed on Sunday the port of Algeciras to land the hundred migrants on board the rescue ship, after more than two weeks of wait, and whipped Italy for its refusal to offer a port.

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