"During the inter-monsoon period quite every location along the coast may be used to launch skiffs and whalers, including southern coast locations," the EU Navfor spokesperson told EUobserver. Monitoring and patrolling the area can be tricky as seasonal factors affect the number of locations where pirates launch their attacks. Nato and other countries, including India, China, Iran and South Korea are also on the scene. Including the two French warships, Operation Atalanta Forces now has a total of six EU surface combat vessels patrolling a zone 30 times the surface-area of England.Īside from the Somali coastal territory and its territorial and internal waters, the ships also cover the south of the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Western part of the Indian Ocean including the Seychelles. Rear Admiral Duncan Potts, who is the operational commander of the EU naval force, also warned that "piracy has caused so much misery to the Somali people and to the crews of ships transiting the area and it is right that we continue to move forward in our efforts."Īt the same time as widening the scope of operations, the EU also extended the anti-pirate mission's overall mandate on Friday by two years. "This should be limited actions against assets on the edge of the beach," he noted. "But no boots will be on the ground."įor his part, German deputy defence minister Christian Schmidt told press in Brussels on Thursday that helicopters would be used to strike against moored pirate boats, trucks or fuel depots. "No decision has been made and what kind of operations will take place," he told EUobserver from the United Kingdom. WOT RU6: 5:30 UTC every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.A spokesperson at the European Union Naval Force (EU Navfor) Somalia declined to comment if the French warship is actually carrying any helicopters or what their targets would be if they did.WOT RU5: 2:00 UTC every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.WOT RU4: 1:00 UTC every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.WOT RU3: 1:00 UTC every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.WOT RU2: 2:00 UTC every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.WOT RU1: 2:00 UTC every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.WOT RU9 - Khabarovsk, Russia (login.p9.).WOT RU8 - Krasnoyarsk, Russia (login.p8.).WOT RU4 - Yekaterinburg, Russia (login.p4.).WOT RU3 - Luxembourg, Luxembourg (login.p3.).
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