Following his successful efforts to find a solution in Bosnia, Richard Holbrooke had planned to visit Cyprus, but was diverted by the Crisis in the Aegean involving the island of Imia, when Greece and Turkey nearly went to war.

It is in all our interests that European countries come together to manage the Crisis in the Aegean and ensure that migrants are treated humanely but also fairly, and that if they do not have well-founded asylum claims, they can be returned.