GENEVA: For the 5th immediately 12 months, a minimum of 1,500 migrants have perished within the Mediterranean, with the route between Libya and Italy being the deadliest, claiming the lives of 1 in 19, the UN migration agency stated on Friday.
Spain, which has overtaken Italy as the most well liked vacation spot, has registered just about 21,000 migrants to this point this 12 months, nearly greater than in the whole of last 12 months, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) stated.
In all, about 55,000 migrants have reached European shores to this point this 12 months, against greater than double that quantity at this time last 12 months, 111,753, it stated.
Italy - whose new executive has closed its ports to rescue vessels - has had about 18,130 migrants arriving by means of sea from Libya this 12 months, with the remaining going to Greece, Malta and Cyprus.
"Despite incredibly low numbers arriving to Italy, the per capita death or the rate of death per 1,000 people may be at its highest point since the emergency began," IOM spokesman Joel Millman instructed a news briefing.
The IOM and the UN refugee agency UNHCR showed that they might host a meeting in Geneva on Monday to speak about a collective option to disembarkation issues aimed toward making rescues at sea more manageable. They declined to say which executive officers would attend the closed-door meeting.
On Tuesday, the European Commission presented a proposal for "regional disembarkation platforms" that might most probably be located outdoor the European Union to process migrants rescued at sea.
However, the plans stay imprecise and do not point out any doable host international locations. EU diplomats say they might be set up in North Africa.
More than 600 African migrants forced their approach throughout the heavily fortified border fence isolating the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco on Thursday, using saws, shears and mallets to cut throughout the twine.
"What we can say is that the first indications that we are getting from the Spanish authorities is that it is the West African migrants that were most prominent crossing into Libya in the past couple of years who seem to be choosing Spain as their route now," Millman stated.
The dying rate at the western Mediterranean path to Spain is ready one in 70 migrants, he added.
Spain, which has overtaken Italy as the most well liked vacation spot, has registered just about 21,000 migrants to this point this 12 months, nearly greater than in the whole of last 12 months, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) stated.
In all, about 55,000 migrants have reached European shores to this point this 12 months, against greater than double that quantity at this time last 12 months, 111,753, it stated.
Italy - whose new executive has closed its ports to rescue vessels - has had about 18,130 migrants arriving by means of sea from Libya this 12 months, with the remaining going to Greece, Malta and Cyprus.
"Despite incredibly low numbers arriving to Italy, the per capita death or the rate of death per 1,000 people may be at its highest point since the emergency began," IOM spokesman Joel Millman instructed a news briefing.
The IOM and the UN refugee agency UNHCR showed that they might host a meeting in Geneva on Monday to speak about a collective option to disembarkation issues aimed toward making rescues at sea more manageable. They declined to say which executive officers would attend the closed-door meeting.
On Tuesday, the European Commission presented a proposal for "regional disembarkation platforms" that might most probably be located outdoor the European Union to process migrants rescued at sea.
However, the plans stay imprecise and do not point out any doable host international locations. EU diplomats say they might be set up in North Africa.
More than 600 African migrants forced their approach throughout the heavily fortified border fence isolating the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco on Thursday, using saws, shears and mallets to cut throughout the twine.
"What we can say is that the first indications that we are getting from the Spanish authorities is that it is the West African migrants that were most prominent crossing into Libya in the past couple of years who seem to be choosing Spain as their route now," Millman stated.
The dying rate at the western Mediterranean path to Spain is ready one in 70 migrants, he added.
1,500 migrants have died in Mediterranean in 2018: UN
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