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<p>The UK Government welcomes the safe disembarkation of the 64 rescued migrants on
board the German Non-Governmental Organisation-operated search and rescue vessel Alan
Kurdi in Malta. This followed an EU-brokered agreement for the migrants to be relocated
to four EU member states. We are concerned about the continued impasse over search
and rescue in the central Mediterranean that has affected this and other recent search
and rescue operations, in the absence of predictable disembarkation arrangements.
The UK continues to work with our EU partners and internationally to find a solution
and is committed to pursuing a whole of route approach, including upstream interventions,
to tackle the causes of irregular migration across the Mediterranean.</p>
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