• Federica Mogherini, European Union high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, addresses the U.N. Security Council meeting on cooperation between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations in maintaining international peace and security as Peter Sutherland, special representative of the secretary-general on international migration and development, listens Monday. Europe's main concern in confronting the Mediterranean migrant crisis is to save lives, Mogherini told the U.N. Security Council. | LOEY FELIPE / UNITED NATIONS-HANDOUT / AFP-JIJI
    Federica Mogherini, European Union high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, addresses the U.N. Security Council meeting on cooperation between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations in maintaining international peace and security as Peter Sutherland, special representative of the secretary-general on international migration and development, listens Monday. Europe's main concern in confronting the Mediterranean migrant crisis is to save lives, Mogherini told the U.N. Security Council. | LOEY FELIPE / UNITED NATIONS-HANDOUT / AFP-JIJI

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UNITED NATIONS – Europe appealed to the United Nations Security Council on Monday to back its plan to stem the deadly flow of migrants across the Mediterranean by dismantling people-smuggling organizations and destroying their vessels, though not by bombing.

European Union leaders agreed last month to “identify, capture and destroy vessels before they are used by traffickers,” but it is unclear how that may be achieved and the 28-nation bloc wants U.N. authorization for its operation.

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