Governments must act now to fight piracy
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- Almost every day seafarers are being kidnapped and exposed to an increasing risk of injury or even death.
- Every day seafarers transport the world’s goods through areas where the risk of pirate attack is increasing.
- Every day seafarers’ families are suffering worry and uncertainty.
- Every day the chances of attracting people to jobs at sea – on which all our economies rely – are shrinking.
- Every day shipping companies and their insurers have to pay for increasing anti-piracy measures, extra fuel and ransoms – costs that are eventually passed on to the consumer.
- Every day the risk of a major ecological disaster due to an oil spill caused by piracy increases.
- Every day the chances of a recovery in the world economy are being jeopardised by this threat to world trade.
We, the undersigned, urgently call on Governments to do everything possible to protect the thousands of seafarers and the hundreds of ships at risk of attack by pirates by:
- dedicating significant resources and concerted efforts to find real solutions to the growing piracy problem;
- taking immediate steps to secure the release and safe return of kidnapped seafarers to their families;
- working within the international community to secure a stable and peaceful future for Somalia and its people.
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