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Lawyers: Accused Somali
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RICHMOND, Va. June 12, 2010 — Piracy charges against six
Somali nationals should be dismissed because the defendants
did not take over or rob the U.S. Navy ship they are accused
of attacking, lawyers for the men argue.
The defendants are being held for trial in Norfolk on piracy
and other charges related to an April 10 attack on the USS
Ashland in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia's pirate-infested
coast. Their skiff was destroyed during the encounter.
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Hamburg, Germany, June 12, 2010 – Ten alleged Somali pirates
extradited from the Netherlands are awaiting trial in the
north German city of Hamburg.
The handover took place on the Dutch-German border on
Thursday.
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Geneva, June 12, 2010 – The United Nations refugee agency
expressed sadness today after learning of the deaths of nine
Somali asylum-seekers who drowned while attempting to reach
Mozambique, an increasingly popular route for Somalis trying to
flee the violence and suffering in their homeland.
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Denis Allex was taken
hostage in Mogadishu in July 2009 along with a second French
citizen. The other hostage, Marc Aubriere, was taken
hostage by another organization — Hezb al-Islam. Aubriere
subsequently escaped (or, according to alternate narratives,
was ransomed). Allex has remained in al-Shabaab custody
since.
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Mike Sunderland
Nairobi, Kenya, June 12, 2010 – A Somali militant group
allied with the country's weak U.N.-backed transitional
federal government says it has killed and captured fighters
from the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabaab militia during clashes
in central Somalia.
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This
combo of two undated mugs provided by the U.S.
Marshals on Wednesday June 9, 2010 shows Carlos
Eduardo Almonte, left and Mohamed Mahmood Alessa,
right. Authorities say terrorism suspects, Almonte,
24, and Alessa, 20 were arrested at New York's
Kennedy Airport on Saturday June 5, 2010 in hopes of
getting terrorism training in Somalia. The two made
their first federal court appearance Monday in
Newark, N.J. and both requested court-appointed
attorneys. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals)
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By DAVID PORTER
NEWARK, N.J. June 12, 2010 — Two New Jersey men accused of
trying to join a terrorist group in Somalia must remain
behind bars pending trial, a federal magistrate judge ruled
Thursday, citing potential danger to the community and risk
of flight.
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UNITED NATIONS,
June 12, 2010 -- The international effort to combat piracy
off the coast of Somalia continues to face important
operational challenges, the chair of the UN-led Contact
Group said here on Thursday.
"Pirates have become more sophisticated and more daring,
especially concerning their operations away from lands. The
theater has shifted."
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Illegal Shipment Of
Cheetahs Confiscated In Dubai |
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Dubai, June 12, 2010 – The Ministry of Environment and Water
Thursday confiscated 15 cheetahs that were illegally shipped
from Somalia.
The shipment of cheetahs was not accompanied by any health
certificate or document, which rendered the shipment illegal
according to Federal Law No 11 of 2002 which regulates the
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of
Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
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Election Results In
Netherlands: The Diaspora Worried |
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Amsterdam, June 12, 2010 – Following the legislative
election results in the Netherlands, Radio Netherlands
Worldwide wanted to hear the reaction of the African
Diaspora in the country. Three representatives do not hide
their concerns about the breakthrough of the right wing
populist party, the PVV led by Geert Wilders.
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Immigrant Youths Riot In
Sweden, Burning Down School |
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Up to 100
youths rioted for a second night in Rinkeby,
Stockholm |
Stockholm, Sweden, June 12, 2010 – Rioters in the Swedish
capital, Stockholm, have burned down a school building and
thrown stones at police in a second night of disturbances.
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UNPOS Organizes Follow
Up-Meeting On Istanbul Conference On Somalia |
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For Immediate Release
PRESS RELEASE 014/2010
Nairobi, 12 June 2010 – As an immediate follow up of the
Istanbul conference on Somalia, on 8 June 2010, UN Special
Representative, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, along with
representatives of the Islamic Development Bank and Turkey
co-chaired the first meeting to discuss the implementation
of the recommendations made at the conference.
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Somali Soccer Fans Go
Underground |
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The
Somali crewmen admitted at Makunudhu health center.
Haveeru MMS 2323 |
By Abdinasir Mohamed
Mogadishu, Somalia, June 12, 2010 — World Cup madness has
come to this troubled nation, creating a dangerous
cat-and-mouse game between fans eager to watch televised
soccer matches and Islamic militants determined to stop
them.
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Somali Militia Claims Win
Over Al Qaeda-Linked Force |
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Mogadishu, Somalia, June 12, 2010 – A pro-government militia
claimed Wednesday to have inflicted heavy losses on al
Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab forces and recaptured a key town in
central Somalia from the group.
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Somalia's Defence Minister
Yusuf Mohammed Siad Resigns |
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Mogadishu, Somalia, June 12, 2010 – Somalia's defense
minister, who is leading the fight against Islamist
insurgents, has resigned from the embattled transitional
government.
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Somaliland Discussed In The House
Of Lords |
The House of Lords
London, UK, June 12,
2010 (SL Times) –
Somaliland was a topic
of exchange between Lord
Luce and Lord Howell of
Guildford (Minister of
State, Foreign and
Commonwealth Office) in
the House of Lords. Lord
Luce submitted written
questions to Lord Howell
(Minister of State,
Foreign and Commonwealth
Office). The issues in
the exchange included
Somaliland’s coming
elections, election
observers and the
required criteria for
the UK to recognize
Somaliland.
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Somaliland Police
Raids Terrorist Hideout |
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Burco, Somaliland, June 12, 2010 (SL Times) – Somaliland
security forces and police raided a house in the city of Buroa
in which terror suspects were hiding. According to Somaliland
Police Commander, Gen. Muhammad Saqadhi Dubad, eleven people (7
men and 4 women) were arrested in the raid. One member of
Somaliland security forces was killed during the raid and two
police officers were wounded. Somaliland security forces found a
cache of weapons, ammunitions and bomb-making materials in the
house.
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President Kahin
Flies To Erigavo, Faysal In Las Anod, Sillanyo Visits
Gabiley And Borama |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 12, 2010 (SL Times) – An airplane
was used in political campaigning for the first time in
Somaliland’s recent history when President Dahir Rayale
Kahin flew to Erigavo with a nine member delegation,
including ministers, top leaders of the governing UDUB
party, and parliamentarians.
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KULMIYE Feeds The Hungry |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 12, 2010 (SL Times) –
Somaliland’s KULMIYE party distributed grocery items to forty
needy families in the State House area of the Sha’ab
neighborhood. The food items were composed of flour and rice.
Both the donation and distribution of these essential groceries
was organized by the women’s wing of Kulmiye party.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 12, 2010 (SL Times) – Somaliland
traditional leader Bur Madow urged Somalilanders to be vigilant
about protecting their peace and security and to participate in
voting on election day. The traditional leader made these
comments at Hargeysa’s Crown Hotel where he was honored by the
journalist organization (SYMA) for his valuable efforts to
maintain and strengthen the peace in Somaliland. The President
of SYMA called Bur Madow “Somaliland’s Prince of Peace” (boqorka
nabada Somaliland).
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Galkayo, Somalia, June 12, 2010
(SL Times) – In further indication of the collusion between the
Puntland administration and pirates, Puntland's Governor of
Mudug Region, Col. Ahmed Ali Salad Farah sent a strong message,
through the media, to the Somaliland government, to release the
Puntland pirates that it is holding in its jails. The Puntland
governor claimed that the pirates whom the Somaliland security
forces had caught red-handed, and who were convicted by
Somaliland courts, are not actually pirates but fishermen.
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African Peacekeepers Massacring
Somali Civilians |
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Mogadishu, Somalia, June 12,
2010 (SL Times) – Somali parliamentarian Dahir Abdiqadir Muse
accused African peacekeepers (AMISOM) in Mogadishu of massacring
civilians. Speaking to the press in Mogadishu, he said, "AMISOM
has brought a lot of hardship on the people, especially in times
of armed conflict when they deliberately fire artillery on
civilians in specific neighborhoods."
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Somaliland: Hargeysa Selected As
One Of The 14th World Cup “Pilgrims” |
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Doreen
Baingana |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 12, 2010 – The Institute for
Practical Research and Training (IPRT) is pleased that the
Chinua Achebe Center and Chimurenga have chosen Somaliland’s
capital city, Hargeysa, as one of 14 “pilgrimage” cities to be
explored by African writers while the FIFA World Cup tournament
is being held in South Africa.
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Djibouti Fears Civil War |
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A spat of
violent incidents leads to concerns over growing
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Written by Benjamin Joffe-Walt
The head of the military police is killed. An army ambush on
rebels ends in the death of three soldiers. Everyday, a killing
is splashed across the news as low-intensity armed clashes
spread.
Sounds a bit like Iraq, Darfur, Afghanistan or the Congo?
Nope. It's the tiny, East African nation of Djibouti, which over
the past week has teetered closer and closer to civil war.
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Kenyan Asks U.S. To Improve
Security For Somalia |
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U.S. Vice
President Joe Biden, second left, pose for photographers
with Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, left, Kenyan
President Mwai Kibaki, third left, and Kenyan Vice
President Kalonzo Musyoka, right, at State House
Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday June 8, 2010. Biden began his
three-African nation tour in Egypt and are scheduled to
visit Nairobi National Park to view wildlife before
traveling to South Africa for the opening of
football's World Cup later in the week.
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NAIROBI, Kenya, June 12, 2010 -- Kenya's president asked the
United States on Tuesday to lead a greater international
effort to stabilize neighboring Somalia, while visiting U.S.
Vice President Joe Biden said the U.S. is committed to
helping Kenya see regional stability.
The request that the U.S. do more to combat rising militancy
in Somalia comes three days after the arrests of two New
Jersey men attempting to fly there. The two are charged with
conspiring to kill, maim and kidnap persons outside the U.S.
by joining al-Shabaab, a Somali militant group designated by
the U.S. in 2008 as a terrorist organization.
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Hassan Kul
Hawadleh was stabbed to death on the forecourt of the
Total petrol station in Wealdstone |
London, UK, June
12, 2010 – A TEENAGER has been jailed for life for the
murder of the son of a former Somali Prime Minister in
Wealdstone.
Hassan Kul Hawadleh, 19, of West Hendon, was stabbed to
death on the forecourt of the Total Garage in High Road,
following a week-long escalation of violence in Wealdstone.
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Ambassador
Augustine Mahiga of Tanzania at UN Headquarters in
2006 |
New York, June 12, 2010 –
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Augustine Mahiga,
Tanzania’s Ambassador to the United Nations, to serve as his
top envoy for Somalia, which is in the midst of one of the
worst humanitarian and political crises in the world.
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Saudi Arabia Gives Israel Clear
Skies To Attack Iranian Nuclear Sites |
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An Israeli
pilot trains on a F16 simulator
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Hugh Tomlinson
Dubai, UAE, June 12, 2010 – Saudi Arabia has conducted tests to
stand down its air defenses to enable Israeli jets to make a
bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Times can
reveal.
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World Cup 2010: The Party Starts
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Spectacular
... dancers at the opening ceremony before South Africa
and Mexico drew 1-1 |
From OLIVER HARVEY
Soccer City, Johannesburg, June 12, 2010 – IT sounded like the
roar of 50,000 rampaging bull elephants and didn't let up all
afternoon.
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A drummer performs with dancers in
traditional costume during the 2010 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony at
Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Getty Images:
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It's South Africa's time. It's time to celebrate.
By Andrew
Geoghegan
I'm
doing something on camera I've rarely done before in Africa; I'm smiling. Over
the past few weeks I've reported on the build up to the World Cup and most of
those stories have been positive. This is a revelation. My job has been to
convey morbid tales of woe to people back home. Suddenly this country is alive
with optimism.
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By
M. H. Abby (Email:
abbimo@hotmail.com) – Part 1 of 3
Forward
Somaliland is the former British Protectorate in the Horn of
Africa with boundaries drawn up during the scramble for Africa
in agreement with France, Italy and Ethiopia. In the north
Somaliland forms the larger part of the African coast of the
Gulf of Aden. Inland it has borders in the west with the
Republic of Djibouti, in the east with Somalia and the south
with Ethiopia.
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By Pierre Englebert
Claremont, Calif.
THE World Cup, which began yesterday, is bringing deserved
appreciation of South Africa as a nation that transitioned
from white minority domination to a vibrant pluralist
democracy. Yet its achievements stand largely alone on the
continent. Of the 17 African nations that are commemorating
their 50th anniversaries of independence this year — the
Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia will both do so in
the coming weeks — few have anything to truly celebrate.
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Chris Guillebeau
AC360° Contributor
The Final Fifty
Greetings from Terminal 1 in Singapore’s Changi Airport—or
perhaps HKG, or NRT, or en route to LAX depending on when
you read this. I’m on the way home from my latest global
adventure.
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If you haven't yet heard of the Somali-born rapper K'Naan
(pronounced KAY-nawn) or his song "Wavin' Flag," you will
... very soon. The soaring, uplifting song -- with its
catchy sing-along section and its positive lyrics -- was
chosen a while back as the Coca-Cola's official promotional
anthem for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and has spread like
wildfire around the world.
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Are The
US, Canada And France To Blame For The Recent Terrorism In
Somaliland? |
Given the seriousness of the terrorist threat to the US,
Canada and France and their oft-stated anti-terrorist policies,
the title of this editorial may seem counterintuitive, even
provocative, but before we answer the question, let us first
congratulate Somaliland police and security forces for
uncovering the terrorist plot in the city of Burco and moving
against the terrorists before they did damage to the people and
the country.
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1969 Military Coup In Somalia
Part XXIX |
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By Dr. Mohamed-Rashid Sh. Hassan
This is the twenty-ninth article of a series of articles that
Dr. Mohamed-Rashid analyses the military coup and its legacy
Clan/State Relationship
By definition, ethnicity is a sense of group
identity deriving from real or perceived common bonds such
as language, race or religion. Put succinctly by another
scholar, Ethnicity has been taken to refer to a group of
people holding something in common, such as language,
religion, geographical origin, common history, some physical
characteristic, genetic similarity or some other attribute.
If we apply this definition to Somali society, Somalis
must be seen as one ethnic group divided into clans and
sub-clans, because they speak the same language and have the
same culture.
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Somaliland Elections: Major
Blow To Canadian, American, Al-Shabaab’s Clandestine
Operations |
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By Dalmar Kahin
Last month, May 2010 the Al-Shabaab affiliated armed group
NSUM in Buhodle town and Widh Widh village, both in Sool
region of Somaliland, got a rude awakening when Somaliland
security forces swiftly and devastatingly overrun the
militants. After gearing up for a showdown with the local
security forces for five years, launching a camping of
terror against Somaliland police stations and government
officials, holding a number of meetings to promote violence
and raising
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President Riyale Is A Clear &
Present Danger |
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By Geleh Ali Gulaid
President Riyale’s willingness to use all political routes to guarantee his
survivability is a clear and present danger to the peace and harmony that
Somalilanders have toiled nearly two decades for. In the past, President Riyale
and his consortium of Yes-men in his inner-circle have too easily descended to
lowest common denominator by fear mongering, highlighting and inflaming at
tribal tensions for a mere political gains.
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Our Votes Are For Change Not
For Sale |
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By Mukhtar Mohamed Abby
Early in this month the Election Campaign has officially
started throughout the country, and each political party has
been given a specific day by the National Election
Commission of Somaliland to drum up support for their
campaign and woo the people of Somaliland to vote for their
respective party by expounding to the masses of Somaliland
their manifestos.
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Elections in Somaliland,
Demonstrations Abroad |
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By Ahmed M. Adan-Dheri
In one month, Somaliland will mark its 50th anniversary of gaining Independence
from the former colonial power of Great Britain, on the same day it is holding
its 2nd Presidential and 4th General Elections since the birth of the Republic
of Somaliland on May 18th, 1991.
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Constructing A Reliable Central Bank For
Somaliland |
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By Abdillahi A.
Duhod B.S.c,
Regional
Manager of PxL Associate
London
May 2010
The day is set
26th June 2010, when the critics and cynics boasted would never come. They
constantly said “The elections in Somaliland will never happen, because this is
Africa” but we as a nation have again triumphant over them, and have silenced
the haters.
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The War on Piracy Must
Start on Land |
By ANTONIO MARIA COSTA
How is it possible that pirates from very poor Somalia can
hold to ransom ships from some of the richest countries,
despite the patrolling by the world’s strongest navies?
That was the dilemma discussed at the recent Istanbul
Conference on Somalia, and is high on the agenda of the
United Nations, NATO and the European Union.
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How Many Countries Are There
And What Makes A Nation? |
World football's governing body FIFA has 208 member
countries, the UN has 192 members. But how many countries
are there really and what defines a nation?
It’s a question that could spark a heated debate in a pub quiz, but even the UN
can not pinpoint how many countries there were in the world.
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Editorial: America Can’t
Ignore Somalia Any Longer |
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The Daily Nation’s Editorial
On Saturday, US law enforcement officers arrested two men at Kennedy
International Airport who were on their way to join the Somali Islamic extremist
group, Al Shabaab.
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Sixth Plenary Meeting Of The
Contact Group On Piracy Off The Coast Of Somalia
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Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
June 11, 2010
The Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia met at United Nations
Headquarters in New York on June 10, 2010, and agreed upon the following
statement.
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The Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS) held its sixth
meeting in New York on June 10, 2010, under the Chairmanship of Greece.
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