Subscribe to RSS feedSomali Basin protection not a priority for Atalanta
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Justin Stares, Brussels
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Feb 15, 2010 10:06 AM
PROTECTING shipping from pirate attacks in the Somali Basin is not a top priority for the European Union’s anti-piracy effort, Operation Atalanta, according to the force commander.
The EU fleet deployed in the region – seven ships on average and three full-time maritime patrol aircraft – is not large enough to protect merchant vessels in the “huge, huge piece of ocean” stretching eastwards from Somalia towards India,...
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