{"id":139519,"date":"2018-06-11T13:04:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T13:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/spain-will-accept-disputed-migrant-ship\/"},"modified":"2018-06-11T13:04:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T13:04:50","slug":"spain-will-accept-disputed-migrant-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/spain-will-accept-disputed-migrant-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain &#8216;will accept disputed migrant ship&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Migrants picked up by the Aquarius\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/7EBE\/production\/_101964423_migrants.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  SOS MEDITERRANEE<figcaption>Image caption                                      German charity SOS M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e posted photos of rescued migrants                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Spain&#039;s prime minister has said the country will take in a rescue ship stranded in the Mediterranean, to help avoid a humanitarian catastrophe.  <\/p>\n<p>Pedro S\u00e1nchez said he would give &quot;safe harbour&quot; to the Aquarius and the 629 people on board, after Italy and Malta both refused to let the ship dock.<\/p>\n<p>The UN refugee agency and the EU had both called for a swift end to the stand-off between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Mr S\u00e1nchez has said the ship will dock in Valencia.<\/p>\n<p>The migrants aboard the Aquarius were picked up in six different rescue operations off Libya&#039;s coast, according to the German charity SOS M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<p>Many are children, and pregnant women are also among them.<\/p>\n<h2>Why didn&#039;t Italy or Malta take the ship?<\/h2>\n<p>Italy&#039;s new Interior Minister Matteo Salvini refused to let it in, saying: &quot;Saving lives is a duty, turning Italy into a huge refugee camp is not.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Salvini, leader of the right-wing League party, promised during Italy&#039;s recent general election to take a tough stance against migration.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reality Check: Claims about migrants arriving in Italy<\/li>\n<li>Desperate migrants rescued from the sea<\/li>\n<li>UN sanctions for people traffickers in Libya<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He said Malta should accept the Aquarius, but it refused, arguing that it falls under Italy&#039;s jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>Italy is the main entry point for migrants crossing from North Africa to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>SOS M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e earlier said the Aquarius had been instructed by the Italian Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre to stand by in its current position, 35 nautical miles (65km) from Italy and 27 nautical miles from Malta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright SOS MEDITERRANEEImage caption German charity SOS M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e posted photos of rescued migrants Spain&#039;s prime minister has said the country will take in a rescue ship stranded in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}