Piracy. Emergency International Summit Scheduled in Cairo

Countering the escalating threat of piracy in the Gulf of Aden will be the focus of an emergency international summit scheduled to take place in Cairo.

The organizer, a newly created security company called Phoenix Intelligence Support Services Inc. says officials from seven countries in the Middle East, the Horn of Africa region and elsewhere along with international and private sector agencies are expected to take part in the summit. Officials say participants in the summit will discuss ways to address the spike in piracy off the coast of Somalia in the short term and begin developing plans for a long-term solution to the problem. The conference is seen as one of a series of ant-piracy conferences only helping the conference organizers to earn some cash. Egyptian diplomatic sources stated that the Egyptian government, which had hosted earlier inter-governmental meetings on the issue, is not the host of this event.

Source - Ecoterra Intl, May 3, 2009

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