Transportation Industry
MARITIME PIRACY : COMMISSION CALLS FOR COMBINED EFFORT FROM MEMBER STATES.
Transport Europe, May, 2008
Faced with the repeated acts of maritime piracy, particularly off the coast of Somalia, cooperation between European countries on this issue should be reinforced. At least this is the wish of the European Commission in response to several questions from MEPs and journalists.
"Keeping the waters off the coast of Somalia safe cannot be guaranteed as required by the Somali authorities," explains a European Commission spokesperson. The problem of piracy is "serious": 17 attacks in the first half of 2007, against eight in the same period in 2006; a situation that the Commission "deplores". The EU executive is therefore calling on "all parties to take all possible measures to guarantee, according to international law, the immediate end to acts of piracy such as...
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