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KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – Foreign warship patrols and dramatic shoot-outs will never eliminate piracy off Somalia, according to experts meeting here who said the crisis needed a long-term political solution.
They also called for foreign intervention to halt illegal fishing and dumping of toxic chemicals in Somalia's territorial waters, saying the incursions were among the factors fuelling piracy.
Pottengal Mukundan, director of the London-based International Maritime Bureau (IMB) which monitors piracy worldwide, said the multinational naval task force currently patrolling the troubled region was only a temporary measure.
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