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BRUSSELS , Oct. 27, 2008 — NATO says one of its warships has successfully escorted a cargo ship to a port in Somalia in the first such mission since the alliance's flotilla arrived off the Somali coast.
NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said Monday that the warship accompanied a vessel taking supplies to the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Somalia .
NATO's flotilla arrived in the region on the weekend. Its ships will be available to escort cargo vessels taking food aid to Somalia and to conduct general anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden .
Somalia , caught up in an Islamic insurgency, has not had a functioning government since 1991 and cannot guard its coastline.
Source: AP
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