UN Security Council
2022

and piracy and armed robbery at sea, and noting the complex relationship between these issues, Condemning that pirate networks continue to rely on kidnapping and hostagetaking, in the context of weak national capacities, to help generate funding to purchase weapons, gain recruits, and continue their operational activities, thereby jeopardizing the safety and security of seafarers and restricting the flow of commerce, Expressing serious concern over the cost of piracy to States in the region through economic impacts on trade, investments, development, and growth, noting the study supported by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on “Pirates of the Gulf of Guinea, a cost analysis for the coastal states” and its findings of significant direct, indirect and opportunity costs to the region, encouraging the region, with the support of partners, to address these findings, their underlying causes, and to strengthen the measures to counter piracy, and in this regard welcoming the interest given to this issue by the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), Taking into account relevant regional arrangements, such as the African Charter