Somali piracy issue hinges on the country's political stability
China welcomes the progress made by the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia in implementing the Kampala Accord, and hopes that the relevant parties in Somalia will strengthen coordination and cooperation, resolve their disputes.
Military action can only mitigate the scourge of Somali piracy, said Wang Min, China's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, when addressing the tenth plenary meeting of the contact group on piracy off the coast of Somalia.
He said China welcomes the progress made by the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia in implementing the Kampala Accord, and hopes that the relevant parties in Somalia will strengthen coordination and cooperation, resolve their disputes through dialogue and negotiations, and implement the "roadmap ending the transition" without delay.
"We call on the international community to remain focused on the situation in Somalia, continue to adopt a holistic and multifaceted strategy to provide support to the country, tackle both the symptoms and root causes of the problem, and follow through on its commitments to provide assistance to Somalia," the Chinese diplomat said.
He said the Chinese Navy started to dispatch escort warships to the Gulf of Aden and the Somali waters since January 2009. By the end of October this year, China has dispatched ten batches of 26 warships to engage in escort missions for 4,228 vessels in 383 batches.
"The escort missions are 100 percent successful," he added.
"We rescued 46 vessels which were attacked and chased by pirates, and escorted nine vessels which were released after abduction," he said.
China also cooperated with the European Union on four escort missions for food-delivering ships of the UN World Food Program, he noted.
In the third quarter of this year, he said, China voluntarily submitted the escort schedule of the Chinese Navy in the Somali waters for the first quarter of 2012 to facilitate the coordination of the escort schedules of the parties concerned and improve the efficiency of escort and counter-piracy efforts.
Source : Global Freight Alliance Tracking
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