Secretary General Ban Stresses Need for Comprehensive Global Response to Piracy Off Somalia

by Gary Kopycinski on April 18, 2011

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NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–18 April 2011 â Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for a comprehensive response to maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia, saying the menace is a consequence of the overall insecurity, lack of a stable national government and underdevelopment in the Horn of Africa country.