Washington – Vice-Admiral Enrico Credendino, Operation Commander of the EU Eunavfor Med, flew to Washington recently, to hold meetings with various operation authorities of the Departments of State, Defense and Coast Guard of the United States. As a whole, the activities allowed to further promote with institutional US stakeholders the Eunavfor Med mission. Launched on June 22, the operation wants to “locate, retrieve and render unusable vessels and related tools / methods used by the smugglers and traffickers of migrants, in order to contribute to the overall effort of the European Union to defeat the migrant smuggling and trafficking business in the Central and Southern Mediterranean.” (9colonne)
