UN AWARD TO IRAN FOR ATROCITIES IN SOMALI WATERS
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23-Nov-2009 (one comment)

Iran To Receive UN Award For Combating Piracy while its navy commits atrocities against innocent fishermen.

Iran will be presented with a 'Certificate of Commendation' for helping to combat piracy at the annual International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Awards for Exceptional Bravery at Sea, its news agency IRNA reported Saturday.

The awards ceremony come as the UN specialized agency is starting its 26th regular assembly session, during which the election of council members is being held on Friday November 27.

Commanding officers of ships, which have served in the Gulf of Aden and off Somalia, are attending a ceremony to receive their award in recognition of exceptional services to shipping and to humanity at the IMO headquarters in London on Nov 23 evening.

Those in attendance also include High Commissioners and Ambassadors from countries, who have deployed naval assets in the region that recently became notorious for piracy.

Figures compiled by IMO show that there were a total of 135 piracy attacks in the region during 2008, resulting in 44 ships been seized and more than 600 seafarers kidnapped and held for ransom.
But by January this year, a regional agreement on a Code of Conduct on the Repression of Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in the Western Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden was adopted at a high-level meeting in Djibouti.

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Farhad Kashani

IRI navy is in that area

by Farhad Kashani on Tue Nov 24, 2009 03:06 PM PST

IRI navy is in that area for one and one reason only. Aiding Yemeni terrorists through Eritrea.

Shah Gholam, wake up dude…!!! Most of the world are way ahead of you…! People know better! IRI has never done, and never will, do anything, and I mean anything, positive. IRi is synonymous with death, destruction, execution, chaos, terrorism, fundamentalism, war, ..That’s all!

Are you trying hard to really close your eyes to all these realities? And also, if fighting pirates are a good thing, why aren’t you praising U.S fight against these pirates, which by the way, after U.,S operation against them earlier this year, reduced piracy tremendously? Ha? Why aren’t you praising U.S, ha? I know you are ungrateful to what this country has offered you, after all, being an IRI supporter no one expect anything less, but have the courage to tell whats truth.

 


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