The NGO ship will not be allowed to disembark. The letter to Malta to force it to take charge of the migrants
Of Giuseppe De Lorenzo
Many expected a turning point. E, Perhaps, that's what's really about to happen. Matteo Salvini in fact, it has decided to close all Italian ports to NGO ships loaded with migrants.
The boat who is carrying i 600 shipwrecked people rescued in these difficult hours it was not not being authorized to dock in the Bel Paese.
The vessel (flying the flag of Gibraltar) after the rescue operations it arrived in Maltese waters. Salvini sent a letter to the Maltese government to explain that the “nearest safe haven” it is precisely the island-state and that if Valletta does not want to take charge of the migrants, this time it won't be Italy that takes its place. The unprecedented change also had the green light from the Minister of Infrastructure, Danilo Toninelli (responsible for landing authorizations).
One thousand saved in the Mediterranean
The waters of the Mediterranean therefore return to being the main national and international political scenario. Today they were saved 627 migrants in six different rescue operations. Ben 123 of these are minor, 11 children and 7 pregnant women. A boom in departures that raises some suspicion. According to some analysts, Indeed, Libya would be sending messages to the new executive to test the stability of the agreements made by Marco Minniti. E, Perhaps, to try to obtain some concessions (and money) more.
Matteo Salvini, for a few days at the Viminale, he thus had to face the first landing of his era in government yesterday. Between yesterday and today the counter reads one thousand immigrants coming soon. Some have already landed, others may arrive in the next few days. Unless, and this is the real news, Italy doesn't really decide with Salvini and Toninelli to show the red flag to NGOs.
Let's be clear. The government did not lack its resources to save the refugees from certain death. Together with three merchant ships and the NGO's Aquarius Sos Mediterranée, In fact, it sent three Coast Guard patrol boats stationed in Lampedusa to rescue desperate people from the waves. All the migrants were then put on the Aquarius which now sails without a precise direction. It should soon enter Malta's range of action. And it is at that point that the cards on the table could be shuffled by Salvini. “If anyone thinks that a summer with landings will be repeated without lifting a finger,- the vice-president of the Council said yesterday – that's not what I'll do as a minister. I won't stand by and watch“. Said, Done.

The Interior Ministry's decision was obviously not liked by the Maltese island. Which apparently does not intend to give in. “The rescue (of the ship Aquarius ndr) – said the government spokesperson – it occurred in the Libyan search and rescue area and was coordinated by the rescue center in Rome. Malta is neither the coordinating authority nor competent for this case”. And the Maltese ambassador reiterated the line of the island's government, ordering Salvini to stop with the “provocations” (read here). But the objective of the minister and Toninelli is to put Malta “faced with his responsibilities“. “AND our intention – the ministers write in a note – that officially responds to our request to open its ports for the rescue of the hundreds of shipwrecked people present on the NGO ship Aquarius. The island cannot continue to look the other way“.

Malta did not have enough peanuts

To understand the way of working an entire newspaper page wouldn't be enough. We need to be satisfied with the most recent news. Two days ago the Malta Coast Guard offered assistance (but not entry into a port) all 'Seefuchs', vessel of one Ong German that he was carrying 126 migrants. In the end those refugees were brought to Italy. The government of the island (accused by Salvini of “always say no to any request for intervention”) he denies everything and brands the minister's accusations as false. My records delivered by the captain of the humanitarian ship frame Valletta. And now the front with the Bel Paese is open. Already two days ago the Interior Ministry had asked Malta to take care of migrants, receiving outright denial. So Salvini had been forced to grant assistance to the NGO (although indicating the port of destination only after several hours of navigation).
The fact Malta has been operating like this in the Mediterranean for some time. Despite having claimed an area Sar (search and rescue) circa 750 times larger than its territory, it never secured the resources needed to ensure sufficient relief operations. When NGO ships call to obtain coordination, Valletta often doesn't respond. And so in the end the non-governmental organizations consulted the MRCC of Italy which also takes charge of stretches of sea that, in theory, they don't compete with them.
You will say: we could leave them at sea and pretend nothing happened? No, Obviously, because the European Convention on Human Rights and the Hamburg Convention oblige those who receive the emergency (l’Italy) – if no one else responds (Malta) or he cannot intervene (Libya and Tunisia) – to provide for himself. It's not a coincidence, so, if in 2016, the Italian Coast Guard rescued 35 thousand shipwrecked people while the Maltese beaches barely saw any disembarkation 1.700.
Where does this disproportion come from?? Migrant boats leaving Libya often shipwreck near Lampedusa – even if in the area he will be from Malta –, and this led the former British colony to consider the 'safe place' to disembark the refugees the one closest to the rescue point (Lampedusa) and not Valletta. Not even the IMO guidelines (obligation for the State responsible for the SAR area to authorize the landing) they were enough. Valletta, Indeed, interprets them differently from the Belpaese and in any case does not take them into account. Furthermore, has not ratified the amendments to the SAR and SOLAS Conventions of 2014, rules according to which the government “responsible for the Sar region where the survivors were recovered” has the obligation to provide a port of disembarkation. Malta has not approved them because it says it is not large enough to be able to cover the costs of reception. And so in the end it is the Bel Paese that welcomes them all.
Source: http://m.ilgiornale.it/news/2018/06/10/migranti-la-svolta-di-salvini-chiusi-tutti-i-porti-italiani/1539029/