UN General Assembly
2008

handling the Somali case when compared to the ways that it has responded to other crises in comparable situations. We urgently need the deployment of a fully fledged United Nations peacekeeping force to restore peace and stability and to create a secure environment for institution-building and socio-economic development. Let me draw to the Assembly’s attention the increasing acts of piracy and armed robbery against vessels in Somali and adjacent waters, which have resulted in the loss of both human life and property. My Government has strongly condemned those criminal acts, which violate international law and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of l0 December 1982. Those criminal acts of piracy are unacceptable and should be put to an end. Since Somalia has no capacity to interdict vessels or patrol its long coastline to ensure the security of the sea lanes, we call on the international community to cooperate with the Transitional Federal Government in the fight against sea piracy, in conformity with the provisions of paragraph 7 of Security Council resolution 1816