EU extends naval operation off Somalia until 2014

Kuwait News Agency
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

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The EU Foreign Affairs Council Monday agreed to extend the mandate of the EU naval operation, Atalanta, off the coast of Somalia until December 2014.

Since its launch in December 2008, Atalanta has been successfully escorting the World Food Program (WFP) and African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) shipments to Somalia, protecting the most vulnerable shipping and deterring and preventing repressing acts of piracy and armed robbery off the Somali coast, said the Council in a statement.

The EU's counter-piracy operation is conducted as part of the overall international effort for Somalia and the wider region as most recently outlined during the London conference on Somalia, it added.

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