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The EU mission is to focus on the Bab Al Mandeb Strait in the Red Sea (Photo: obt.inpe.br)

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EU aiming to send three destroyers to Red Sea

The EU is aiming to send at least three warships to the Red Sea by March to help stop Houthi attacks on commercial vessels.

"To be efficient, the force generation objective should be at least three anti-air destroyers or frigates with multi-mission capabilities for at least one year", as well as "airborne early-warning capabilities", with "satellite support", the EU foreign service said in a proposal on Wednesday (10 January), seen by EUobserver.

Their main job would be "accompan...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

The EU mission is to focus on the Bab Al Mandeb Strait in the Red Sea (Photo: obt.inpe.br)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

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