Norway supports Somalia to create economic zone

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Norway supports Somalia to create economic zone

 

Norway to help Somalia to establish a 200-mile economic zone along its coast. This can help in the long run to solve the problem of pirate.

 

At the request of the Somali transitional federal government to help the Norway impoverished country on the Horn of Africa to create a 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone (380 kilometers) off its coast.

 

The work on this, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Norwegian Mapping Authority start pretty quickly. Norway to pay for this project.

 

During Thursday's meeting of the Contact Group to combat piracy off the coast of Somalia, held at UN headquarters in New York, put Norway up their efforts and received much praise and support for this.

 

More than 40 countries and a number of maritime organizations participating in this group that works to prevent piracy operations off Somalia's coast. An issue that has damaged the international shipping industry.

 

Special Adviser Carl Peter Salicath the Foreign Ministry, who led the Norwegian delegation to the meeting, told Aftenposten.no that this is a work that does not need to take so long.

 

The starting point for the counterfeit problem is now available off the coast of Somalia (Gulf of Aden), stems from the fact that other countries have been Raw Fish Sales Act there. Somalia has not had an economic zone waters and therefore have been seen as a haven for all predatory nations from Europe and elsewhere.

 

This led to the Somali fishermen, often in desperation, hijacked foreign fishing boats, stole fishing equipment.

 

Later it developed into being a livelihood that created big problems for the commercial shipping industry. The entire merchant fleet was the target.

 

In the first quarter of this year were registered some 65 cases of piracy in the world. Over half of these occurred in the Gulf of Aden.

 

Robber Bander wasting and scoop all types of ships and requires a ransom for them.

 

Now patrolled these waters by naval vessels from several countries. Norway has participated in a frigate.

 

The important of this project is that if Somalia in the future to administer their own waters to create economic prosperity, it is this area important. This opens opportunities for Somali authorities to sell the fishing rights. They have dominion over the resources. It is obviously up to them to how soma Lierne will administer its waters, emphasizes Salicath.

 

A zone of 200 nautical gives the coastal state rights to resources in this area. This applies both to the resources of the sea and the seabed, such as oil and gas. Shipping, however, assumed that would be free. This principle was established at the UN regarding admiralty law in 1975. Norway introduced its zone in 1976.