...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...an countries agreed to accept all of them.
French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner tweeted that the 150 will be welcomed in La Belle France "in the coming days."
He added: "Together, we managed to build a European solution."
The Norwegian-flagged rescue ship Ocean Viking, with a stated passenger capacity of around 200, picked up the people in four rescue efforts off Libya from Aug. 9-12.
The
Requests for a safe port were previously denied by Malta and ignored by Italia, according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and SOS Mediterranee, the two charities running the ship.
MSF welcomed Malta's decision to take ashore the
Jay Berger, operations manager for Doctors Without Borders on board the Ocean Viking, said: "We are relieved that the long ordeal for the 356 people on board with us if finally over but was it necessary to keep them waiting for two weeks of torment?"
In a statement, he added: "This is about people who have fled desperate conditions in their homelands and have survived the horrific violence in Libya."
He said once the rescued
The European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
also welcomed Malta's decision and the pledges made by the European countries to welcome the
EU Migration Commissioner Dmitris Avramopoulos said in a statement that "these commitments must now be honored and materialized swiftly."
The EU's border and asylum agencies will help screen people before they are relocated.
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