IMO: IMO hosts meetings of Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia
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24 Feb 2009 - 18 Jan 2016
The Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), Efthimios E. Mitropoulos, today (24 February 2009) opened the first meeting of a Working Group charged with considering modalities for operational coordination and information-sharing, the possible establishment of a regional coordination centre and regional capability development, in the context of on-going efforts by navies to protect international shipping from acts of piracy and armed robbery in the waters off the coast of Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden.
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