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Viktor Fyretracker
Caldari Provisions
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Posted - 2008.06.03 06:49:00 -
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well kinda! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7432612.stm
Quote: Navies to tackle Somali pirates
The UN Security Council has unanimously voted to allow countries to send warships into Somalia's territorial waters to tackle pirates.
The resolution permits countries that have the agreement of Somalia's interim government to use any means to repress acts of piracy for the next six months.
Twenty-six ships have been attacked by pirates in the waters in the past year.
The vote came as the UN launched peace talks with factions involved in Somalia's conflict.
The Islamist opposition said face-to-face talks would not happen at the meeting in neighbouring Djibouti until the government set a timetable for the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops.
Rife piracy
Somalia's coastal waters are near shipping routes connecting the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, and the country's government is unable to police its own coastline.
Consequently, piracy is rife off Somalia's 1,800 mile-long coast, says the BBC UN correspondent Laura Trevelyan.
The resolution was drafted by France, the US and Panama.
Our correspondent says France originally wanted to expand the motion to allow piracy to be tackled in other areas, such as West Africa.
China, Vietnam and Libya said they voted for the measure because it only applies to Somalia, and does not affect the sovereignty of other countries.
But diplomats say the Security Council action is significant because it is using the force of international law to allow navies to chase pirates and armed robbers.
Boycott
Security Council envoys are holding separate meetings in Djibouti with the Somali government and the opposition at a luxury hotel on the shores of the Red Sea.
I am willing to do whatever it takes to promote peace and stability in Somalia President Abdullahi Yusuf
The talks, which are being held in Djibouti because Somalia is deemed too dangerous, are part of a UN plan to broker the first official direct talks between the Somali rivals.
Somalia has not had a functioning national government since 1991.
An Islamist insurgency there has been mounting almost daily attacks on the weak government, which is backed by the United States, because Washington believes the Islamists are associated with al-Qaeda.
The UN says almost two million Somalis desperately need assistance.
A small contingent of African Union troops is in Mogadishu but has done little to quell the violence.
The talks are being boycotted by the hard-line al-Shabab militia, blamed for many of the attacks on government troops and their Ethiopian supporters.
They refuse to hold talks until the Ethiopian troops leave the country.
President Abdullahi Yusuf says there would be a security vacuum if the Ethiopians withdrew before being replaced by UN peacekeepers.
"I am willing to do whatever it takes to promote peace and stability in Somalia," he said.
The UN mission will also visit Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, where millions of people have been displaced by fighting in the east of the country.
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Magnus Nordir
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Posted - 2008.06.03 09:34:00 -
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And thus, one of the last RL 0.0 systems is going, going gone... ***************************** Love is like a war - easy to start, hard to continue, impossible to forget. |
LUH 3471
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Posted - 2008.06.03 19:40:00 -
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where would jita be then and where hed-gp ?
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Nomakai Delateriel
Shadow Company Souls of Vengeance
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Posted - 2008.06.03 19:45:00 -
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Originally by: LUH 3471 where hed-gp ?
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Kyrall
Deep Core Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2008.06.03 20:01:00 -
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Originally by: LUH 3471 where would jita be then and where hed-gp ?
Jita would most likely be Tokyo or Beijing.
Fake edit: Okay I googled and it's Mumbai, India. |
Keorythe
Terra Rosa Militia Sev3rance
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Posted - 2008.06.04 00:45:00 -
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Wait wait, piracy over there has been as common as breathing for the past few centuries. And NOW they're going to do something about it? Did some UN bigshot's friend get hijacked in a cruise ship over there again (yes several have been pirated)?
Are we going to see another Blackhawk down when the UN trips over itself again? Who the heck is going to give them the navy they want? Oh oh! Are we going to see the rekindling of PT/Riverborne combat boat platoons again?
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Jacob Mei
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Posted - 2008.06.04 01:35:00 -
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Originally by: Keorythe Wait wait, piracy over there has been as common as breathing for the past few centuries. And NOW they're going to do something about it? Did some UN bigshot's friend get hijacked in a cruise ship over there again (yes several have been pirated)?
Are we going to see another Blackhawk down when the UN trips over itself again? Who the heck is going to give them the navy they want? Oh oh! Are we going to see the rekindling of PT/Riverborne combat boat platoons again?
The problem has been a case of juristiction and the pirates know it. By running into another countries waters the pursuing navy cant make a lawful arrest as a whole host of questions over who gets the pirates, can the pursing navy even make the arrest in someone elses water, etc. While the navies try to decide who gets the pirates, the pirates quietly slip into another countires waters.
Makes you all warm inside knowing that theives, murders and what not can escape the law simply by stepping into someone elses backyard doesnt it? -------------------------------- To borrow a phrase:
Players who post are like stars, there are bright ones and those who are dim.
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Fraszoid
ULTRA VEGA
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Posted - 2008.06.04 02:34:00 -
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So we can't just deploy some torpedo frigates and sink them? -------------------------------------------------- Everyone is born right handed, only the great over come it.
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Magnus Nordir
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Posted - 2008.06.04 22:09:00 -
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Nuke the site from orbit, only way to be sure, etc... ***************************** Love is like a war - easy to start, hard to continue, impossible to forget. |
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