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Migrant crisis: Nato deploys Aegean people-smuggling patrols
Source: BBC
Nato ships are being deployed to the Aegean sea to deter people-smugglers taking migrants from Turkey to Greece, Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg says.
The announcement followed a request from Turkey, Germany and Greece at a defence ministers' meeting in Brussels.
Mr Stoltenberg said the mission would not be about "stopping or pushing back refugee boats".
Nato, he said, will contribute "critical information and surveillance to help counter human trafficking".
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35549478
