The humanitarian NGO Sea-Watch has filed a ‘legal protest’ over the Malta’s refusal to allow its reconnaissance aircraft, the Moonbird, from operating. It said that Malta remained “short on a legal justification for this obstruction”, adding that months of negotiations had not resulted in a breakthrough. “Muscat talks of not looing away and illegally impedes the deployment of civilian rescue assets and of the reconnaissance aircraft Moonbird,” Bayer said. It said that with nearly all civilian rescue assets detained in various ports, there was no sea rescue whatsoever in the central Mediterranean. Joseph Muscat should save his hypocritical tweets when he is not ready to act accordingly.” Bayer said.

Source: Libya Today September 07, 2018 08:48 UTC