Mistral began sea trials in January 2005, and was commissioned in February 2006. She departed from Toulon for her first long-range journey in March, sailing through the Mediterranean Sea, Suez Canal, and the Red Sea to Djibouti and India, before returning to France. In July, to ensure the safety of European citizens in the context of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, France set up Opération Baliste. Mistral was the flagship of the fleet unit off Lebanon, escorted by the frigates Jean Bart and Jean de Vienne, and along with another amphibious assault ship, Siroco.
On 16 May 2008, the Burmese United Nations (UN) ambassador accused France of deploying Mistral to the Burmese coast for military purposes. The French UN ambassador denied this, stating that she was instead carrying 1,500 tons of relief supplies.[1]
In March 2011 Mistral was deployed to Libyan waters to help aid the joint NATO effort to repatriate tens of thousands of Egyptian refugees fleeing the violence in Libya.[2]
^"France angered by Burmese delays". BBC Online. 17 May 2008. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
^"Libya: UK and France to fly Egyptians from Tunisia". BBC Online. 2 March 2011. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
^Guisnel, Jean (13 January 2013). "EXCLUSIF. Somalie : le raid pour libérer Denis Allex a été conduit depuis le Mistral". Le Point (in French). Retrieved 24 October 2014.
^"New Drug Seizure By The French Navy In The Gulf Of Guinea". Naval News. 25 May 2022. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
Further readingedit
Moulin, Jean (2020). Tous les porte-aéronefs en France: de 1912 à nos jours [All the Aircraft Carriers of France: From 1912 to Today]. Collection Navires et Histoire des Marines du Mond; 35 (in French). Le Vigen, France: Lela Presse. ISBN978-2-37468-035-4.</ref>
External linksedit
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