"A race is under way with the pirates off Somalia," said Jack Lang came to present his report to the Security Council of the United Nations Tuesday, January 25, before warning the international community: response if a firm, clear and clean is not organized in extreme emergency, the professionalization process, amplification and intensification of piracy could reach "a point of no return".
The 50-page document, which declines as a roadmap twenty-five proposals, is the result of a five-month mission entrusted to it by this summer the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon . It was as UN Special Adviser on the legal issues related to piracy off Somalia, the former French minister visited the region twice, and conducted intensive consultations with nearly 50 states, international organizations, private companies and research institutes.
Jack Lang called the States concerned to change their approach to this scourge, which could eventually, in his opinion, affect the entire global economy. The fight against piracy should undergo a "Somaliazation" solutions, "he insists, the idea being that the international community focuses its efforts on Somalia, which is" both main source and victim of piracy " .
Exit and the idea advanced by some countries of an international tribunal to try suspects caught, that far in the absence of rule of law in Somalia, in 9 out of 10 are released. "Not suitable, too expensive and too long to put in place," the cowardly member of the Pas-de-Calais on his arrival in New York.
It is a specialized court Somali but extraterritorial installed temporarily in the premises of the Arusha International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, which he preferred. The envoy, who hopes to vote on a UN resolution in three or four weeks, gives an alarming state of affairs. "Piracy knows no ebb since its outbreak off the coast of Somalia in 2007," says the report, which are at least 1 500 pirates under the command of a dozen sponsors.
Only in 2010, 1,200 people were taken hostage in the Gulf of Aden, a record. The past year has also been marked by French Deputy, an intensification of violence - Pirates armed with automatic weapons like AK47s and rocket launchers RPG-7, a longer average duration of captivity (increased to 120 days), sophistication of the procedure (use of GPS, satellite phones ...) and an extension of the zone of attacks in the south (to Mozambique) and eastern Indian Ocean.
Not to mention the ransom paid by ship, the amount has doubled, the latest would have amounted to 9 million. If he pulls his hat to the naval forces deployed since 2008 in the Gulf of Aden for their "policing of the seas" has allowed a more secure maritime traffic, it highlights the limitations of a purely military response.
Jack Lang proposes to strengthen the measures already implemented and to deploy new, focused primarily on stable regions and self-proclaimed autonomous Somaliland and Puntland in the north. "These regions say they determined to fight against piracy, let's take them at their word!" Launches special envoy, convinced that in exchange for international financial assistance, their governments would take "concrete steps to pursue sponsors , restore the rule of law in the areas of refuge from pirates and control the coast.
" Its action plan has three components: economic, security and judicial / prison. There can be no prevention without repression, warns Jack Lang. Aid for economic and social development of these two regions, particularly in Puntland, where are the main areas of refuge for pirates, is a key element of its plan of action.
The emphasis is on port activities, fishing, the export of livestock and telecommunications. On the security aspect, French MP proposes to reintroduce police units in areas outside the law and strengthen the capabilities of forensic investigation of the States of the region. The goal, he says, is to ensure better collection of evidence for backtracking and tackling "mafia kingpins" who direct and cons which encourages the Security Council to adopt individual sanctions.
Currently, indignant Jack Lang, the fingerprints of suspects and the numbers of banknotes delivered to them to resolve the ransoms are rarely raised, as to the mother ship, they are sunk! Finally, to fill the enormous vacuum judicial and penitentiary that has plagued the region, former professor of international law calls for the creation, within eight months, two special courts in Puntland and Somaliland, and construction of two prisons to 500 seats each.
Estimated cost of this operation: 25 million. An argument, said Jack Lang, when we know that the overall cost of piracy is estimated at $ 7 billion to 12 billion dollars per year. Alexandra Geneste
The 50-page document, which declines as a roadmap twenty-five proposals, is the result of a five-month mission entrusted to it by this summer the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon . It was as UN Special Adviser on the legal issues related to piracy off Somalia, the former French minister visited the region twice, and conducted intensive consultations with nearly 50 states, international organizations, private companies and research institutes.
Jack Lang called the States concerned to change their approach to this scourge, which could eventually, in his opinion, affect the entire global economy. The fight against piracy should undergo a "Somaliazation" solutions, "he insists, the idea being that the international community focuses its efforts on Somalia, which is" both main source and victim of piracy " .
Exit and the idea advanced by some countries of an international tribunal to try suspects caught, that far in the absence of rule of law in Somalia, in 9 out of 10 are released. "Not suitable, too expensive and too long to put in place," the cowardly member of the Pas-de-Calais on his arrival in New York.
It is a specialized court Somali but extraterritorial installed temporarily in the premises of the Arusha International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, which he preferred. The envoy, who hopes to vote on a UN resolution in three or four weeks, gives an alarming state of affairs. "Piracy knows no ebb since its outbreak off the coast of Somalia in 2007," says the report, which are at least 1 500 pirates under the command of a dozen sponsors.
Only in 2010, 1,200 people were taken hostage in the Gulf of Aden, a record. The past year has also been marked by French Deputy, an intensification of violence - Pirates armed with automatic weapons like AK47s and rocket launchers RPG-7, a longer average duration of captivity (increased to 120 days), sophistication of the procedure (use of GPS, satellite phones ...) and an extension of the zone of attacks in the south (to Mozambique) and eastern Indian Ocean.
Not to mention the ransom paid by ship, the amount has doubled, the latest would have amounted to 9 million. If he pulls his hat to the naval forces deployed since 2008 in the Gulf of Aden for their "policing of the seas" has allowed a more secure maritime traffic, it highlights the limitations of a purely military response.
Jack Lang proposes to strengthen the measures already implemented and to deploy new, focused primarily on stable regions and self-proclaimed autonomous Somaliland and Puntland in the north. "These regions say they determined to fight against piracy, let's take them at their word!" Launches special envoy, convinced that in exchange for international financial assistance, their governments would take "concrete steps to pursue sponsors , restore the rule of law in the areas of refuge from pirates and control the coast.
" Its action plan has three components: economic, security and judicial / prison. There can be no prevention without repression, warns Jack Lang. Aid for economic and social development of these two regions, particularly in Puntland, where are the main areas of refuge for pirates, is a key element of its plan of action.
The emphasis is on port activities, fishing, the export of livestock and telecommunications. On the security aspect, French MP proposes to reintroduce police units in areas outside the law and strengthen the capabilities of forensic investigation of the States of the region. The goal, he says, is to ensure better collection of evidence for backtracking and tackling "mafia kingpins" who direct and cons which encourages the Security Council to adopt individual sanctions.
Currently, indignant Jack Lang, the fingerprints of suspects and the numbers of banknotes delivered to them to resolve the ransoms are rarely raised, as to the mother ship, they are sunk! Finally, to fill the enormous vacuum judicial and penitentiary that has plagued the region, former professor of international law calls for the creation, within eight months, two special courts in Puntland and Somaliland, and construction of two prisons to 500 seats each.
Estimated cost of this operation: 25 million. An argument, said Jack Lang, when we know that the overall cost of piracy is estimated at $ 7 billion to 12 billion dollars per year. Alexandra Geneste
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