UN Security Council
2021

to initiate a mapping process of all maritime activities, including international support; 5. Recognizes the need to continue investigating and prosecuting those who plan, organize, illicitly finance or profit from pirate attacks off t he coast of Somalia, including key figures of criminal networks involved in piracy, and to develop the capacity of Somali authorities to investigate and prosecute such persons, and the capacity of Somalia’s Financial Intelligence Unit to identify illicit f inancial activity and support the prosecution of pirate financiers, and urges States, working in conjunction with relevant international organizations, to adopt legislation to facilitate prosecution of suspected pirates off the coast of Somalia; 6. Calls upon the Somali authorities to interdict, and upon interdiction to have mechanisms in place to safely return effects seized by pirates, investigate and prosecute pirates and to patrol the waters off the coast of Somalia to prevent and suppress acts of piracy and armed robbery at sea; 7. Calls upon the Somali authorities to make all efforts to bring to justice