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NATO Announces Plan to Send Ships to Aegean Sea to Aid Refugees

In the latest meeting of the NATO North Atlantic Council, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced that the organization would send a maritime force to help tackle the refugee crisis in the Aegean Sea.

Stoltenberg said that the ships would not be “stopping or pushing back refugee boats,” and would instead gather “critical information and surveillance to help counter human trafficking and criminal networks,” NPR reported.

Stoltenberg did not offer a detailed outline of what further role NATO’s ships would take in the Aegean Sea.

According to The New York Times, General Philip M. Breedlove of the United States Air Force told reporters that the mission had “literally come together in the last 20 hours.”

“We had some very rapid decision making, and now we have to go out and do some military work,” Breedlove said. Credit: YouTube/NATO