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NATO to Launch Operation 'Sea Guardian' in Mediterranean Sea - Stoltenberg

© AFP 2023 / ALBERTO PIZZOLIUS Navy personnel load rocket on a F/A-18E Super Hornet on the flight deck of the USS Nimitz (CVN 68) aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean Sea on October 25, 2013
US Navy personnel load rocket on a F/A-18E Super Hornet on the flight deck of the USS Nimitz (CVN 68) aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean Sea on October 25, 2013 - Sputnik International
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NATO will launch a new broad-scoped maritime operation Sea Guardian in the Mediterranean Sea in a close cooperation with the EU operation Sophia, the alliance's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Saturday.

SS Ross (DDG 71), foreground, and Etman Sahaidachniy (U130) steam in formation during Sea Breeze 2014. (File) - Sputnik International
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WARSAW (Sputnik) — The Operation Sophia was launched in June 2015 in response to the migration crisis in Europe as hundreds of thousands of refugees fled from the Middle East and Northern Africa to EU member states.

"We will launch a new maritime security operation in the Mediterranean sea, Operation 'Sea Guardian'. It will have a broad scope, including situation awareness, counter terrorism and capacity building. We intend to work closely with the European Union's Operation Sophia in the central Mediterranean," Stoltenberg told reporters at the NATO summit in Warsaw.

The United States and NATO have been building up their combined military presence in Europe. In early February, US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said Washington would quadruple its funding to support the US posture in Europe, to reach $3.4 billion in 2017.

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