UN chief calls for stepped-up global action to combat ‘alarming’ increase in pirate attacks
By APFriday, May 14, 2010
UN chief urges new global fight against piracy
UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling for stepped-up global action to combat the “alarming” increase in pirate attacks, which topped 400 last year.
The U.N. chief told a General Assembly meeting on piracy Friday that the largest concentration of attacks has been off the coast of East Africa.
Rear Admiral Peter Hudson of the European Union Naval Force trying to combat piracy off the coast of Somalia said that between February and May, there has been “a huge surge” in the number of vessels going to sea for piracy.
Ban called for a reassessment of what’s working and what needs to be improved to combat piracy.
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