The International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) are both seriously concerned about the flow of people attempting to cross to Europe in small unseaworthy craft, from, among other regions, the Mediterranean and the Eastern North Atlantic, said Mr. Efthimios E. Mitropoulos, Secretary-General of IMO, following a recent meeting at IMO headquarters in London with the UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Ms. Erika Feller. The small craft involved are often precariously overloaded, leading to circumstances requiring consequential search and rescue operations, as well as reported problems in disembarking the people involved, who may include undocumented migrants, as well as asylum seekers and refugees.