MEP visits AFM headquarters

Nationalist MEP Simon Busuttil, the EPP-ED group spokesman on Frontex, yesterday visited the Armed Forces of Malta's headquarters and operations centre at Luqa Barracks.

Dr Busuttil expressed his appreciation for the armed forces' endeavours in border control.

Colonel Emanuel Mallia, operations officer, and Lieutenant Colonel Martin Sammut, officer in charge of the operations centre, briefed Dr Busuttil on the soldiers' duties.

Brigadier Carmel Vassallo, commander of the AFM, later discussed the legal regime in terms of search and rescue and its regions, as well as the Frontex operation and the inherent challenges.