NATO defense ministers agree to continue fighting Somali pirates
12:25, 13 June 2009
BRUSSELS. June 13. KAZINFORM Defense ministers of the NATO 28 member states have agreed at their two-day meeting in Brussels to continue anti-piracy efforts off Somalia, the alliance's secretary general said on Friday; Kazinform refers to RIA Novosti.
"NATO will continue to play its role in the fight against piracy," Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said after the meeting.
The current NATO operation to tackle pirates off the coast of Somalia ends later in June.
Somalia has been without an effective government since the Revolutionary Socialist Party was overthrown in 1991. The internationally recognized federal government controls only the capital city of Mogadishu and part of central Somalia; Kazinform cites RIA Novosti.
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