COMMITTE: International Maritime Organization (IMO)
TOPIC: Piracy
ROOM: 202
CHAIR: Munguía Flores María Isabel y Calles Monsivais Jorge
Emiliano
Maritime piracy has been on the rise for much of the past decade, even as international efforts have helped reduce the number of successful hijackings, according to the International Maritime Bureau's Piracy 2011 report. Large-scale attacks off the coast of Somalia in 2008 prompted the deployment of an ongoing international coalition of navies to the Gulf of Aden. A report by One Earth Future's Oceans Beyond Piracy Inticiative estimated Somali piracy's impact on the global economy to be $7 billion for 2011, the most detailed estimate to date. A previous report estimated the global cost of piracy for 2010 to be in the range of $7 to $12 billion.
Pirate attacks are largely confined to four major areas: the Gulf of Aden, near Somalia and the southern entrance to the Red Sea; the Gulf of Guinea, near Nigeria and the Niger River delta; the Malacca Strait between Indonesia and Malaysia; and off the Indian subcontinent, particularly between India and Sri Lanka.
Somali pirates, by far the greatest global piracy threat, have increasingly pushed farther off the Somali coast. They have moved deeper into the Indian Ocean, off Seychelles and the Maldives, and further south along the East African coast, off Kenya, Madagascar, and Mozambique.
The international community has taken a number of steps to tackle piracy since Somali pirates emerged as a threat to international maritime security four years ago. In 2008, the UN Security Council passed a series of measures targeting Somali piracy. The move authorized states with navies deployed in the Gulf of Aden to, with the permission of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government, take action against pirates and armed robbers within Somalia.
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