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Nigel Lowry - Tuesday 27 October 2009
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Oct 29, 2009 03:42 PM
NATIONS should sign up to the New York Declaration to combat piracy and resist payment of ransoms to vessel hijackers, a senior US official has said in Athens, writes Nigel Lowry .
“If commercial fleets worldwide were to adopt the self-protection measures called for in the New York Declaration, we would be in a much better position to further reduce the success rate of pirate attacks,” said Assistant Secretary of State for...
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