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NATO agrees to Aegean refugee mission, says German Defense Minister

NATO agrees to Aegean refugee mission, says German Defense Minister

NATO has agreed to start a mission in the Aegean Sea to help slow refugee flows and to stop people smugglers, German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday.

“It is important that we now act quickly,” von der Leyen told reporters in Brussels.

[Reuters]

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