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2009-11-18
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2010-08-25
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  1. “Finally, as the Security Council considers the various options put before it by the Secretary-General to more effectively bring pirates to justice, I must recall that the current rough seas of the south-east monsoon in the Indian Ocean will die down towards the end of September, when there will once again be an upsurge in pirate activity off the coast of Somalia, reaching as far south as Madagascar and as far east as Maldives and India. Seychelles has meanwhile used the lull in pirate activity caused by the bad weather to show that a lot can be done to combat piracy by the region itself, and within the boundaries of domestic law, if there is the political will and commitment to do so, accompanied by the necessary international support and solidarity.”

    2010-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6374 (2010) · source

  2. “It also mandated its secretariat to send a team of experts to establish the extent of the problem and recommend appropriate measures. Seychelles calls on the international community to provide generous support for the regional plan of action, which is well on its way to being approved by countries of the region and key international partners. A well-supported regional plan will encourage more countries in and around the Indian Ocean to play a more active role in combating, prosecuting and imprisoning pirates. It will also relieve international partners from outside the region of some of the high costs of stationing naval and other military units in the Indian Ocean.”

    2010-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6374 (2010) · source

  3. “President, Seychelles is firmly committed and determined to do as much as it can within the limits of its resources and with the much-valued support and assistance of partner countries and organizations. In the past three months, a number of these partners - in particular the UNODC, the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, India and Germany 4 have responded to Seychelles' initiatives with generous offers of support in the form of technical assistance, capacity building, the building of infrastructure and the provision of funding and equipment, for which we are deeply grateful. The Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) held in Windhoek, Namibia, last week noted the economic and security threat posed by piracy in the coastal waters of SADC member States.”

    2010-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6374 (2010) · source

  4. “That meeting was followed in July by the Seychelles International Symposium on Maritime Security, which included the participation of a representative of the Secretary-General, the African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security and representatives of the World Bank, the International Maritime Organization and countries and organizations from both inside and outside the Indian Ocean region. July also saw Seychelles host the fifth regional meeting of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States- European Union Joint Parliamentary Assembly, which looked at piracy, among other issues, and a joint COMESA-IOC workshop that started work on the nuts and bolts of a regional plan of action. As you can see, Mr.”

    2010-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6374 (2010) · source

  5. “Since the General Assembly's informal meeting on piracy in May this year, Seychelles has hosted no fewer than four international and regional meetings of ministers, parliamentarians and technical and military experts to, among other things, spearhead a regional approach to tackle piracy in the Indian Ocean. This process started on 21 May when ministers from six Eastern and Southern African countries, the European Union High-level Representative for Foreign Affairs and Vice-President of the European Commission and representatives of the African Union, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC), INTERPOL and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) met in Seychelles to lay the foundations for a regional plan to combat piracy.”

    2010-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6374 (2010) · source

  6. “Another 29 suspected pirates are awaiting trial in Seychelles or transfer to Somalia. These events underscore Seychelles' determination and firm commitment to playing a proactive role in combating, arresting, prosecuting and imprisoning pirates. We hope it will also serve as a further example that, as has also been shown by Kenya, piracy can be tackled through domestic legislation where there is the political will and courage to do so. But this is not the only way in which Seychelles, the smallest country in Africa and the Indian Ocean, and one of the States most heavily impacted by piracy in the region, has shown its willingness and determination to lead from the front.”

    2010-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6374 (2010) · source

  7. “May I start by expressing Seychelles' condolences to the Ambassador, the people and the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia over the loss of life from the bomb attack in Mogadishu yesterday, as well as my country's strong condemnation of the attack. I am pleased to inform the Security Council that, on 26 July, the Seychelles Supreme Court convicted ll Somali pirates and sentenced them to 10 years in prison, which is the first time pirates were convicted by a Seychelles court of law. Moreover, only eight of the pirates were found guilty of actually committing an act of piracy. The other three were convicted of aiding and abetting piracy after Seychelles amended its domestic laws so that a person does not have to be caught in an actual act of piracy to be arrested and successfully prosecuted.”

    2010-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6374 (2010) · source

  8. “The Seychelles Government therefore supports the Secretary-General's call to strengthen the capabilities of the Somali Transitional Federal Government and of the African Union Mission in Somalia, to restore the rule of law, peace, security and progress to Somalia and, in doing so, to also help eradicate piracy from its shores. Peace will not return to the waters of the Indian Ocean, nor tranquillity to the paradise islands of Seychelles, until there is peace in Somalia. Until then, Seychelles will remain committed to and active in the fight against piracy in the region, but only as far as its resources allow.”

    2009-11-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6221 (2009) · source

  9. “As the Council can see, Seychelles is both in the thick of it and on the front line, but not of our own choosing. We have no choice, as we are the only country in the Indian Ocean to be under siege from pirate attacks, not against us per se, but against anything they see moving in and around our waters. Despite the escalating international military build-up in the Indian Ocean, the biggest in any one region in recent times, we in Seychelles are under no illusion that the long-term solution to piracy in the region and to the security and economic problems it is causing our islands lies in addressing the root cause - the unrest in Somalia itself.”

    2009-11-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6221 (2009) · source

  10. “We have allowed the United States to station unmanned aerial vehicles or drones in Seychelles to supplement the multinational military surveillance aircraft flying from our islands to seek out pirates and alert naval forces and international shipping as to their whereabouts. Meanwhile, we await various kinds of assistance that have been promised to us to help boost our own contribution to the fight against piracy, and we would welcome more. In this regard, we welcome the establishment of an international trust fund by the Contact Group on piracy to complement the Djibouti Code of Conduct trust fund. The Seychelles Government would also support an arrangement whereby pirates convicted in other countries could serve their prison terms in Somalia.”

    2009-11-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6221 (2009) · source

  11. “Unable to effectively protect such a vast territory on our own, we have had to turn to our friends abroad for help. As a result, our population has watched with a mixed sense of anxiety and reassurance as Seychelles has fast become an increasingly important hub in the fight against piracy as it spreads farther and farther into the Indian Ocean. A signatory of the Djibouti Code of Conduct, Seychelles has also signed status of forces agreements and/ or memorandums of understanding with the United States, the European Union, France, Britain and Belgium. Further agreements are being negotiated with NATO and the United Arab Emirates, and we have active military cooperation with India, Russia and other friendly countries.”

    2009-11-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6221 (2009) · source

  12. “The number of boats seeking licences to fish in Seychelles's exclusive economic zone is declining, and even our own domestic fishermen fear putting out to sea. We finally had to allow foreign boats to take troops or armed security guards on board to protect them while fishing. More than 80 per cent of what we consume is imported, mostly by sea. The cost of maritime insurance has shot up, and some cargo ships are now bypassing Seychelles and unloading goods destined for our islands in other ports. All this has helped push up prices and the cost ofliving. Some cruise ships have cancelled their cruises in and around Seychelles, and private yachting is on the decline. Sea travel to our most distant islands has to be done by convoy.”

    2009-11-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6221 (2009) · source

  13. “This is happening at a time when the country is quickly losing much-needed revenue and suffering escalating unforeseen costs because of the pirate attacks, while at the same time struggling through difficult but vital budget-cutting economic reforms in collaboration with the International Monetary Fund. For example, pirate attacks in and around Seychelles have slashed our revenue from fishing, the second most important pillar of our economy after tourism, by more than half. The tuna catch by fishing boats operating out of our capital Port Victoria has also tumbled by 50 per cent to the lowest figure since the 1980s. Several distant-water fishing vessels which were operating out of Port Victoria have left the Indian Ocean altogether.”

    2009-11-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6221 (2009) · source

  14. “We are drawing up new anti-piracy legislation and beefing up our coast guard and relevant investigative, prosecutorial, judicial and custodial institutions as best we can within our limited resources. While it is true we are receiving some help here from our bilateral and multilateral partners, including the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the International Maritime Organization, more is needed. This is because Seychelles is having to divert scarce funds from its economic and social development to defend the country against pirates.”

    2009-11-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6221 (2009) · source

  15. “To Seychelles, piracy in the Indian Ocean is severely endangering our national security, territorial integrity and economic development, stability and viability. The greatest handicap Seychelles faces in combating piracy is that its 115 far-flung islands are sprinkled over an exclusive economic zone of 1.4 million square kilometres. This vast ocean territory is larger than France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg combined. Despite Seychelles having a population of just 85,000 and, consequently, very limited naval and military resources, the Government has had to stationed troops on our outlying islands to protect our territorial integrity and national security.”

    2009-11-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6221 (2009) · source

  16. “I should like to thank you, Sir, for this opportunity to address the Security Council, the Secretary-General for his report (S/2009/590) and Special Representative Ahmedou Ould Abdallah for his briefing. Seychelles is by far the smallest and most vulnerable country to be directly impacted by the spillover of the instability in Somalia. By spillover I mean, of course, the piracy that, as the Secretary- General has pointed out in his report, continues to spread farther East and South into the Indian Ocean, in and around the waters of Seychelles and beyond. To us in Seychelles, the scourge of piracy is not just affecting the freedom of the seas, maritime trade, humanitarian aid or the security of international shipping.”

    2009-11-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6221 (2009) · source