{"id":27867,"date":"2019-01-03T08:22:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T08:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27867"},"modified":"2019-01-03T08:22:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T08:22:23","slug":"netherlands-ready-to-take-in-refugees-from-ngo-ship-off-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27867","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands ready to take in refugees from NGO ship off Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Netherlands<\/a>\u00a0has announced it is prepared to welcome some of the 32 refugees<\/a> and migrants waiting to disembark from a Dutch-flagged vessel in the Mediterranean<\/a> if other countries did the same.<\/p>\n

“The Netherlands has indicated a readiness to possibly take in a proportional number of migrants who are on board Sea-Watch 3, on condition that other European countries do the same,” said Lennart Wegewijs, the security and justice ministry spokesman, on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Dutch had at first joined Italy, Malta<\/a>\u00a0and Spain in refusing to accept the refugees and migrants who were rescued on December 22 by Sea-Watch 3, which is operated by a German charity and have been stranded off Malta.<\/p>\n

Also on Wednesday, Malta’s navy announced that it will allow two German NGO ships with refugees on board, including the Sea-Watch 3, to “take shelter” in Maltese waters due to the deteriorating conditions on board.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 32 refugees on the Sea-Watch 3 who were plucked from a makeshift boat in international waters include three young children, three unaccompanied adolescents and four women from Nigeria<\/a>, Libya<\/a> and Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n

The Sea-Eye, the second ship, has also been stranded in the Mediterranean with 17 refugees on board.<\/span><\/p>\n

A German government spokesman said on Saturday that Germany would only accept some of the refugees if other European countries also agreed to do so.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Storm warning<\/h2>\n

The Sea-Watch NGO tweeted on Wednesday that a<\/span>\u00a0storm at sea is now returning, and the ship’s passengers and crew need a safe harbour.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The storm has forced the ship’s crew to pack the migrants and refugees together in a small area below the deck.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Separately, Spanish coastguards reported on Wednesday they had rescued 401 refugees trying to cross the Mediterranean over the first two days of the New Year.<\/span><\/p>\n

The news comes just days after a charity rescue vessel carrying 311 mainly African refugees plucked off the coast of Libya docked in Spain<\/a>, ending a traumatic journey which saw them spend Christmas at sea.<\/p>\n

With Italian ports closed to refugees by the government in Rome since June, Spain has become a leading destination.<\/span><\/p>\n

More than 1,300 refugees and migrants died trying to reach Italy<\/a> or Malta via the central Mediterranean last year, according to the International Organization for Migration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Netherlands\u00a0has announced it is prepared to welcome some of the 32 refugees and migrants waiting to disembark from a Dutch-flagged vessel in the Mediterranean if other countries did the same. “The Netherlands has indicated a readiness to possibly take in a proportional number of migrants who are on board Sea-Watch 3, on condition that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}