Gulf news.com
Saturday, March 31, 2012
New
York: The past few months have been marked by continual progress on all fronts
for the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia and its working
groups, assistant foreign minister for security and military affairs Fares Al
Mazroui told delegates at the 11th plenary meeting of the Contact Group on
Piracy of the Coast of Somalia in New York yesterday.
Progress
in the campaign against piracy has been built around four key priorities, Al
Mazroui said as the UAE chaired the New
York
Significant advances
The first key priority that the UAE
has set out to achieve through its leadership of the plenary is the raising of
awareness and public diplomacy measures, especially in the region, Al Mazroui said in
opening remarks at the meeting.
The strong progress made on
this front through Working Group 4, which met in New York
Arabic website
"Furthermore, as a
part of these efforts, the UAE is considering the possibility of making
available an Arabic version of the contact group's website, so that the group's
work can be more accessible to the public in some of the regions most affected
by Somali piracy," he said.
This initiative highlights
the second of the UAE's key priorities for its plenary chairmanship: to
emphasise the importance of engagement and ownership of this process by
countries located in the region most affected by piracy, he added.
Critical stake
"The UAE, along with
its neighbours in the region, has a critical stake in the freedom of movement
on the western Indian Ocean, where piracy affects not only our seafarers, but
our economies and its coastal security as well," Al Mazroui said.
Through measures such as
diplomatic engagements, the UAE is striving to bring the piracy problem to the
attention of Gulf states
Source: Gulf News
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