Thursday 5 May 2011

Somalia revives its Exclusive Economic Zone after more than two decades

“It was great honor for me to live up my duty of preparing documents about of our nation’s Exclusive Economic Zone which is 200 nautical miles (370.4 kilometers)” the minister told reporters in Mogadishu on Thursday afternoon.

 

The U.N.-backed Transitional Federal Government of Somalia has revived its Exclusive Economic Zone along the country’s coastal border after more than 20 years of illegal fishing and dumping toxic wastes.
clearpxl Somali Fishing and Sea Resources Minister Mohammed Moallim Hassan, held a press conference in the capital announcing that he has managed to successfully complete documents explaining Mogadishu's territorial waters in accordance with the United Nations Convention on Law of Sea.
“It was a great honor for me to live up my duty of preparing documents about of our nation’s Exclusive Economic Zone which is 200 nautical miles (370.4 kilometers) from the coastline of Somalia,” Hassan said on Thursday. “Somalia has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources."
Hassan spelled out that the maps and the documents will be published by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and others. The minister also said that the current government is responsible for the guarding and monitoring of its EEZ and will not allow foreign ships to illegally fish in Somalia's territorial sea.
Moreover, Somalia claims some nations bring toxic waste from factories to the previously lawless coastline. In March, Somalia's interim federal government warned foreign ships against dumping toxic waste.
However, the move to protect it's coastline from dumping comes as Somali pirates made the Indian Ocean one of the most dangerous sea basins in the world. Warships from the United States, Britain, Japan, France and other countries have been patrolling the Somali coast, but have been unable to stamp-out the problem. Somali pirates continue to hold at least 26 vessels and more than 450 hostages.

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