IMO: Interim guidance on use of privately contracted armed security personnel on board ships agreed by IMO Maritime Safety meeting

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20 May 2011 - 18 Jan 2016
Interim guidance on the employment of privately contracted armed security personnel on board ships transiting the high-risk piracy area off the coast of Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden and the wider Indian Ocean was approved by IMO's Maritime Safety Committee (MSC), which met at the Organization's London Headquarters for its 89th session from 11 to 20 May 2011.

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