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Flying above the Yellow Sea between the two Koreas and China, a French naval crew scans the ocean surface for signs of contraband headed for North Korea.

The team is part of an international mission enforcing UN sanctions on Pyongyang, flying surveillance trips from the US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Japan’s Okinawa.

“The UN sends us information on vessels suspected of illicit behavior,” and then a flight plan is drawn up, said Guillaume, the lieutenant commander who leads the team and can only be identified by his first name.

A member of the French Navy on Tuesday last week looks through a window on a Falcon 200 surveillance aircraft flying above the Yellow Sea to scan the ocean surface for signs of illegal ship-to-ship transfers headed for North Korea. Photo: AFP

On board their Falcon 200 aircraft, the team of six uses radar, as well as ships’ automatic identification system (AIS), which transmits information including a vessel’s identity and its route.

However, their best tool remains visual observation: Two crew members sit next to the plane’s windows, scanning the ocean surface with binoculars and taking photographs.

“We’re the eyes of the United Nations in the area,” Guillaume said.

Suddenly, the team is on alert: A ship has been spotted with its AIS deactivated, a move considered suspect behavior.

The pilots reroute the plane, making two passes at an altitude of less than 150m, looking for the boat’s name on its stern and trying to establish radio contact with its crew.

Briefing the team before the flight, Guillaume stressed the importance of a “cordial and professional response” in instances of suspicious behavior.

“In the context of the international tensions in the area, the goal is to avoid poisoning the situation. We have to be firm but courteous,” he said.

A little farther away, the team spots two stationary ships, hull-to-hull.

A first pass reinforces suspicions: Pumping pipes connect the larger of the ships, whose waterline indicates it is fully loaded, to the smaller one, a merchant ship.

The latter is “ideal for carrying contraband, but could also simply be refueling fishermen,” a team member said.

When contact is established with the larger boat, the crew claims no knowledge of why the smaller vessel is attached.

The French team gathers as much information as possible on the vessels to send to the UN, which would investigate for contraventions of US Security Council Resolutions 2375 and 2397 limiting the sale, supply and transfer of natural gas and petroleum to North Korea.

If a contravention is found, a case could move forward against the ships and their owners.

The team arrived in Japan from their base in French Polynesia in the middle of last month.

French forces have participated in the surveillance missions regularly since 2018, alongside eight other countries and under the supervision of the Enforcement Coordination Cell responsible for implementing UN resolutions.

For France, the missions are also a way to increase its profile in the region, after the 2019 unveiling of its Indo-Pacific defense strategy.

France has 1.6 million citizens and a vast exclusive economic zone of 9 million square kilometers in the region, which has particular strategic value given Beijing’s growing territorial ambitions and US-China tensions.

France’s mission under the UN aegis also illustrates “its interest in the region beyond its Indo-Pacific priorities,” said Hugo Decis, a research analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.

It confirms “the capacity of French forces to work with their partners and allies and in that sense contributes to France’s credibility as a power, even if a secondary one, in the Pacific,” Decis said.

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〔記者呂伊萱／台北報導〕西非學生反應來台簽證辦理困難，開學數月後仍無法來台，質疑台灣外館歧視刁難。外交部今天澄清，外館針對文件進行查驗，從未因是西非地區或特定國家就拒絕受理，無涉歧視；至於速度，外交部說明，因尊重當地流程和回覆情形，各國速度不一。外交部也強調，已請駐處在可能範圍內縮短預約送件時間；駐處並已將學生簽證申請預約全數提前至11月22日以前，並通知當事人，加速審理相關申請案。

外交部發言人歐江安今天在例會上說明，外館依簽證審查與移民單位的查核經驗，部分國家因偽造、變造證件情形嚴重，外館必須先釐清實情、確認文件真實有效，以避免不法情事。

歐江安強調，外館針對個案申請人所提交的文件及證件進行查證，從未因為文件是西非地區或由特定國家提供就拒絕受理，而是要與相關國家的政府機關進行查核文件的真實性，因此無涉「歧視」。至於查證速度，外館是向當地政府機關協請進行文件實質審查，因此必須尊重當地政府的流程及回覆情形，各國速度不一。

關於奈及利亞代表處處理情形，歐江安則說，駐奈及利亞代表處近3年來核發簽證數量超過800件。申請人多數為奈及利亞、甘比亞、迦納、喀麥隆等國人士。今年8月23日起我國開放境外生來台，外館配合開始受理就學簽證申請。駐處於9月1日至11月8日共排定西非國家學生簽證申請40件，其中18件未如期送件，已通過審查8件，未通過5件，原因包括文件造假及面談陳述不實，其餘案件則正在審查中。

歐江安續表示，駐奈及利亞代表處配合奈及利亞政府的防疫措施，彈性調整領務服務時間，但考量教育部盼本學期學生能盡量於12月15日前入境台灣，外交部已請駐處在可能範圍內縮短預約送件時間；駐處已將學生簽證申請預約全數提前至11月22日以前，並通知當事人。

歐江安強調，駐處在考量駐地政府防疫與辦公措施、駐處人力量能等各方面因素下，在符合法規範圍內加速審理相關人士簽證申請案件。

歐江安補充，世界各國對於外籍人士申請簽證審核，均先行過濾申請人的身分及生活條件，也考量所屬國家的人民旅遊習性、擬前往的國家有無入境滯留或非法工作情形、疫病移民風險等，並研判申請人入境的真實意圖，及查核所持證照與相關佐證文件是否真實有效，必要時進行面談。經綜整考量後，決定簽證核發的准駁；我國駐外領務人員，對各國籍人士申請個案，也是秉持相關原則進行審理。

countries: 台灣 喀麥隆 奈及利亞 甘比亞

title: 西非境外生苦等來台簽證 外交部：申請預約全數提前處理


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