UN General Assembly
2013

for the Central African Republic and to mobilize humanitarian assistance commensurate with the problems the country faces. “Those political, security and humanitarian crises are compounded by recurrent acts of banditry, such as abductions of civilians and maritime piracy. The development of the latter criminal activity, which poses a threat to international trade, has reached alarming proportions. According to the International Maritime Bureau, the number of acts of piracy identified along the coast of West Africa in 2012 exceeded for the first time the number of attacks in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. “To deal with that problem, Yaounde, Cameroon’s capital, hosted on 24 and 25 June, in accordance with Security Council resolution 2039 (2012), of 29 February 2012, a joint summit of the Economic Community of Central Africa States, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Commission of the Gulf of Guinea (GGC) on maritime safety and security in the Gulf of Guinea. This was aimed at combatting piracy, armed robbery and other illegal activities perpetrated in the maritime space of the Gulf of