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Istanbul venue for high-level conference on Somalia and piracy
Suspected Somali pirates captured by Britain's Royal Navy in the Gulf of Aden arrive at court in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, May 5 2010. The eight suspects, who were charged with attacking the MV NADA, filed an application to stop Kenya's courts from hearing cases of piracy.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will be among those travelling to Istanbul for a high-level international conference on Somalia on May 22 2010.
The conference, co-hosted by the UN and the Turkish government, is intended to advance Somalia’s peace process which aims to foster political stability, security and reconstruction in the conflict-ravaged Horn of Africa country, the UN News Service said. It will also explore measures to strengthen efforts to combat rampant sea piracy off the Somali coast.
On April 27 2010, the UN Security Council put forward the possibility of establishing international tribunals to try pirates, as its members called for tougher legislation aimed at prosecuting and jailing suspects caught off the coast of Somalia.
In a resolution unanimously adopted, the 15-member body appealed to all states "to criminalise piracy under their domestic law and favourably consider the prosecution of suspected, and imprisonment of convicted, pirates apprehended off the coast of Somalia, consistent with applicable international human rights law".
The Security Council also requested that Secretary-General Ban present a report within three months on possible options for prosecuting and imprisoning suspects in connection with piracy and armed robbery at sea in the Horn of Africa.
In its resolution, members noted efforts by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and other international organisations and donors, including the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS), "to enhance the capacity of the judicial and the corrections systems in Somalia, Kenya, Seychelles and other States in the region".
They also highlighted the role of the European Union (EU), the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) and other partners in bringing suspects to justice, in co-operation with Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG).
Ongoing violence between the TFG, heavily backed by the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and other supporters, and rebel groups in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu prevents piracy suspects from being tried or imprisoned there. Some of the burden has shifted to neighbouring Kenya’s justice system.
The Security Council acknowledged "difficulties that Kenya encountered, encouraging its government to continue prosecuting suspects and imprisoning convicted persons".
The April 27 meeting came just days after B. Lynn Pascoe, UN under-secretary-general for political affairs and chairperson of the board of the Trust Fund to Support Initiatives of States Countering Piracy off the Coast of Somalia, unveiled $2.1 million worth of projects planned to tackle the scourge.
The five projects being backed by the UN Trust Fund, which was set up in January by the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia, are focused largely on efforts to prosecute piracy suspects.
The conference, co-hosted by the UN and the Turkish government, is intended to advance Somalia’s peace process which aims to foster political stability, security and reconstruction in the conflict-ravaged Horn of Africa country, the UN News Service said. It will also explore measures to strengthen efforts to combat rampant sea piracy off the Somali coast.
On April 27 2010, the UN Security Council put forward the possibility of establishing international tribunals to try pirates, as its members called for tougher legislation aimed at prosecuting and jailing suspects caught off the coast of Somalia.
In a resolution unanimously adopted, the 15-member body appealed to all states "to criminalise piracy under their domestic law and favourably consider the prosecution of suspected, and imprisonment of convicted, pirates apprehended off the coast of Somalia, consistent with applicable international human rights law".
The Security Council also requested that Secretary-General Ban present a report within three months on possible options for prosecuting and imprisoning suspects in connection with piracy and armed robbery at sea in the Horn of Africa.
In its resolution, members noted efforts by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and other international organisations and donors, including the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS), "to enhance the capacity of the judicial and the corrections systems in Somalia, Kenya, Seychelles and other States in the region".
They also highlighted the role of the European Union (EU), the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) and other partners in bringing suspects to justice, in co-operation with Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG).
Ongoing violence between the TFG, heavily backed by the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and other supporters, and rebel groups in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu prevents piracy suspects from being tried or imprisoned there. Some of the burden has shifted to neighbouring Kenya’s justice system.
The Security Council acknowledged "difficulties that Kenya encountered, encouraging its government to continue prosecuting suspects and imprisoning convicted persons".
The April 27 meeting came just days after B. Lynn Pascoe, UN under-secretary-general for political affairs and chairperson of the board of the Trust Fund to Support Initiatives of States Countering Piracy off the Coast of Somalia, unveiled $2.1 million worth of projects planned to tackle the scourge.
The five projects being backed by the UN Trust Fund, which was set up in January by the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia, are focused largely on efforts to prosecute piracy suspects.
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... but Somalia is in a state of anarchy and at that it is the Somali people who proved unable to form a society mainly because they have predominantly not national but tribal tendencies for social order.
piracy will be problem in somalia and internationally unless the international community understands establishing strong national government in Somalia.