Tusk calls on UN to impose sanctions against migrant smugglers

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By Associated Press

7 July 2017


PARIS (AP) - The Latest on the flow of migrants into Europe. European Council President Donald Tusk is calling for United Nations sanctions against migrant smugglers illegally taking people from Africa and the Middle East to Europe.

Tusk said the sanctions could include asset freezes and travel bans. He said smuggling was a lucrative business that enabled smugglers to control parts of Libya.

Tusk said that he would urge members of the Group of 20 countries meeting in Hamburg, Germany, to seek sanctions, but said that "we do not have support" for the measure and referred to the "hypocrisy" of some member states.

Tusk called for countries to be "ruthless" against smuggling for humanitarian reasons since thousands of people have died in desert crossings and in the Mediterranean Sea.



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