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After 1888 Libyans had been for some time not allowed to enter any Schengen Area country, including Malta, The Libyan Government on 15 February announced that it was going to retaliate by not allowing citizens of the Schengen countries, including Maltese, not to enter Libya.

On the news of the Libyan Government decision, the Maltese Vice Prime Minister, Tonio Borg, said that he did not agree with the decision that 188 Libyans were not to be admitted in the Schengen Area, and that he had asked for the issue to be discussed during the meeting of 22 February of the Council of Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the EU countries.

On the same day Cecilia Malmstrom, the European Commissioner for Internal Affairs, speaking on behalf of the EU, and therefore also in Malta’s name, said that the European Commission deplores the unilateral decision taken by the Libyan Government.

On 16 February the Maltese Minister for Internal Affairs, Carm Mifsud Bonnici criticized the decision that the 188 Libyans were not to be allowed to enter the Schengen Area by saying that that decision was against the spirit of the Schengen agreement because its scope was not that of security.

But on the same day, a spokesperson for the European Commission, while deploring the decision taken by the Libyan Government, said that the European Commission is going to discuss the issue during the weekend with the Schengen Area countries with those who are not in the Union, so that the Commission

But nothing came out of the 22 February meeting of the council of Ministers for Foreign Affairs.

On 25 February a meeting of the Ministers for Internal Affairs of the EU countries was held and notwithstanding that four countries, among them Malta, said that they did not agree with the decision taken against the 188 Libyans, the meeting President, the Spanish Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, just the same declared in the press conference following the meeting, that the meeting supported Switzerland, the Schengen country  that had taken the decision that the 188 Libyans were not to be given a visa to enter the Schengen Area.

Another meeting for the Ministers for Internal Affairs of the EU countries was held, where they again declared that the issue and the diplomatic efforts had been made, but that agreement had not been found.

On 9 March, The Maltese Euro Parliamentarian Simon Busuttil spoke about the issue during the European Parliament meeting, and the Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said that every effort was being made to solve the issue without any delay.

In the following days Vice Prime Minister Tonio Borg repeated that the Maltese Government, while not wanting to enter into the merit of the issue between Switzerland and Libya, did not agree that the Schengen Agreement be abused by being used for reasons that do not concern security.

After going to Libya and speaking with the highest representatives of the Libyan Government, when he came back to Malta he said that id up to the meeting of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the EU countries that is to be held on 22 March agreement is not reached, Malta was going to propose that the Schengen countries will no longer be bound to follow the decision that was taken that 188 Libyans not to be allowed to enter the Schengen Area.

During the last two days he was more specific because he explained that the proposal is tat the countries that do not agree with the decision on the 188 Libyans, once their commercial interests were hard hit by it, should be given the faculty of issue a visa so that the 188 Libyans can go to the countries that do not agree with the decision against them.

He hopes that Italy, France, Spain and Portugal second the Maltese proposal.

In the meantime last week it became known that the Libyan Government agreed with the proposals for an agreement that had been made by the European Union, but the Swiss Government continued not to agree with them, and therefore the issue has not been concluded.

Due to this issue between the Schengen Area countries and Libya there are hundreds of Maltese who cannot go to their work in Libya, and there are many other Maltese who do not want to leave Libya to come back to their families in Malta because they fear that they will later not be allowed to re-enter Libya for their work.

The same can be said about many traders who are implementing contracts in Libya, who are prevented from continuing to go ahead with their trade or implementing their contracts.

The Schengen Agreement is to blame for all this trouble from which our country is not going to get anything and is going to lose a lot.

During the press conference held last Monday,                                           

* Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, the CNI Chairmam                                    

* said that in the national interest,                                                              

* our country should renounce the Schengen agreement forthwith           

* and should remove the visa requirement for Libyans to come to Malta

* and for Maltese to go to Libya,                                                                

* as we used to do before joining the EU.                                                   

He said that the Swiss Government had for months blacklisted the 188 Libyans and informed all the Schengen countries about this and did not take any measures, until the Libyan Government retaliated by stopping the entry of Schengen countries citizens to Libya.

The issue therefore is between the Schengen countries and Libya.

The speaker explained that while the Maltese ministers criticized Switzerland because it had abused the agreement, the EU condemned the Libyan Government and shown its support for Switzerland.

It was said that the CNI does not agree with the Schengen agreement that brought our country in a position that a foreign country can decide even through abuse who could not enter into our country, or to whom we do not issue a visa.

This issue should serve as a lesson to us that it is not in the national interest to become bound with an agreement such as that of Schengen and that the same is wrong that with the EU membership agreement, the decisions taken by the majority of the EU countries even with the opposition of the Maltese Government, we have to submit to them just the same.

Therefore the CNI Chairman insisted that it is better that we leave the EU, apart from leaving Schengen, if we want our people to get back sovereignty, independence and freedom.

During the press conference Malta’s part in military alliances that according to the Constitution should not be allowed was also discussed.

The Chairman also showed that the Maltese Government participating in meetings of the NATO countries and how NATO was publicizing the visits of NATO warships in our ports with the scope of increasing friendship and cooperation between them.

The speaker mentioned the motion for a resolution of the EP meeting of 10 March 2020 that states that the Parliament reminds of the need to strengthen the strategic partnership and cooperation between the EU and NATO.

He explained how the Union is working more closely with NATO and that with the Lisbon Treaty, the Union strengthened its will to establish an army.

He showed how the Maltese Government,                         

* without any Parliamentary information,                          

* is going to send 12 Maltese soldiers                               

* on Dutch warships                                                            

* to take part in a Union and NATO mission                     

* against piracy in Somali waters,                                      

* where the Western countries are also                             

* committing piracy                                                              

* by dumping their toxic waste,                                           

* as well as by taking the fish                                              

* that are the main means of living for the Somali people.

It was said that three soldiers were going to be sent to Uganda to train Somali soldiers,

* and there was a soldier with the EU military mission in Georgia,                                 

* and another one on a military in England.                                                                      

Mifsud Bonnici said that these measures show that Malta was participating in a military alliance, because the EU is more and more developing in a military alliance among the Union member countries.

The Maltese people have a history that many times was bound with piracy.

The pirates had attacked Malta several times.

The Knights of Malta, on the other hand, committed several acts of piracy in the Mediterranean.

But lately, the Maltese people were involved by the Gonzi Government to take part in piracy outside the Mediterranean.

This piracy is organized by NATO against the poor Somali fishermen.

Somalia is a very poor country broken down with wars and internal civil strife.

It has got a very big coast and therefore there is also a community that lives by traditional fishing, but at least they earn a living.

In the last few years, however, fishing piracy had started to go to Somali waters to steal the fish (Pirate Fishing).

This piracy has increased so much that in the last few years there are continuously some 700 pirate fishing vessels stealing fish.

These include trawlers and factory ships.

Their caches are big.

The Environmental Justice Foundation” , after great research and inspections, has published many details about this piracy.

The EJF is a very serious NGO registered in the UK.

No one can deny the facts.

The pirates come mostly from the European countries and from China.

The European waters have been severely depleted from fish and the EU has made a number of catch restrictions so that fish stocks may regenerate.

China has an enormous population.

This is the reason for this piracy!

At the same time, for the Somali fishermen situation to become worse, piracy of the dumping of toxic and nuclear waste has also reared its head.

Several big corporations who are having problems to dispose of toxic and nuclear waste, started sending pirates to dump this waste in Somali waters (Pirate Dumping).

Obviously this is causing great harm to the environment and to the living of the fishermen in Somalia.

The Somali Government does not have the naval means to stop these tow piracies.

In fact, that is why the pirates choose Somali waters to steal fish and dump toxic waste.

In these circumstances, Somali fishermen, already poor, saw their community living was going to end.

They have families, they have children to feed but know that their government cannot do anything to defend them.

They therefore organized themselves in coastal patrols to stop the pirates and expelling them.

But the pirates have big and stronger ships than the small means of transport of the Somali fishermen.

Not only did the Somali fishermen did not succeed in expelling the European and Chinese pirates, but they were rammed, their launches were broken, they were hurt and in some cases in these conflicts Somali fishermen were also killed by these pirates.

After these incidents, the fishermen found themselves in a desperate situation.

They saw that they had only one way.

To organize themselves as guerillas and attack merchant ships that sail in their waters.

This was to achieve two objectives.

To have the financial means to provide a living for their community and children and to show the countries form where the fishing and toxic waste pirates were coming, that as we say in Maltese, “the gravy is going to cost them more then the fish”.

Here however, NATO intervened.

Not to stop the piracy of fisk stealing and dumping of toxic waste!

That is not important!

Or at least to stop the pirates from retaliating against the Somali fishermem.

But NATO only intervened to oppose the Somali fishermen and thus it would be defending the piracy of the big companies and corporations.

Thus NATO would be faithfully carrying out its true mission, that of a branch of the big capitalist corporations.

This notwithstanding that the Somali fishermen many times had said that they are ready to go back to fishing if fishing and the dumping of toxic and nuclear waste piracy is stopped.

Gonzi’s decision to send Maltese soldiers with NATO in this piracy is illegal.

The Constitution of Malta does not allow Maltese soldiers to take part in military alliances.

It is also an immoral and anti-social decision.

It hurts the small fry, in this case the Somali fishing community.

This for the big fishing companies and big corporations that produce nuclear waste to increase their profits.

It is an inhuman decision because it is of great damage to the environment.

It is only the guerilla fishermen who are trying to stop the dumping of toxic and nuclear waste in Somali waters.

It is also a decision against the Maltese interests because all this is happening at the expense of the Maltese.

It is as if the people are not taxed enough!

All these facts do not bother Gonzi’s Government, and it even appears to totally agree with them so much so that in a local newspaper, Brigadier Martin Xuereb, of the Armed Forces, said that the Government had shown its intention to send a military mission with NATO in Somali waters.

It is not only social conscience that the Government no longer has.

It appears that it has grown totally immune to its tingling.

Thursday 18 March 2010.

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