Legal Committee
The Legal Committee at its 100th session
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received
a document (IMO, 2013p)
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in response to its earlier
request for the IMO to approach agencies in those
regions directly involved in combating piracy and
armed robbery (primarily the European Union Naval
Force Somalia (EU NAVFOR), the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) and the United Nations Office on
Drugs and Crime (UNODC)) to obtain information on
the number of pirates captured and handed ashore
for further investigation, as well as information on the
difficulties identified in the apprehension of pirates.
The following views were expressed in respect of the
above document and the written comments to it