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No EU travel ban to Mexico, diplomats say
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 30 - 04 - 2009

The European Union is not going to ban travel to Mexico because of the outbreak of swine flu there, dpa quoted diplomatic sources as saying today at an emergency meeting of EU health ministers in Luxembourg.
Individual member states have the right to bring in travel
restrictions if they think that this will help prevent the disease
spreading, but the EU as a whole is not going to bring in a ban,
diplomatic sources told the German Press Agency dpa.
Ahead of the meeting, France was the most vocal of a number of EU
member states calling for a blanket ban on flights to Mexico, arguing
that this would limit the spread of swine flu across Europe.
"France is proposing a ban on flights going to the most important
flu area, that is, a ban on flights to Mexico," French Health
Minister Roselyne Bachelot said as she arrived at the meeting.
"It is clear that a ban on flights coming from Mexico could be
counter-productive, as attempts to avoid it could make it harder to
trace people who might be infected," she said.
But member states such as Germany, Spain and Britain opposed any
such move, arguing that it would not be effective, since the disease
has already reached Europe.


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