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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Nato fleet may join fight against pirates

Zeven Provinciën class frigateNato could curtail or scrap a planned goodwill visit of a flotilla of warships to Pakistan, Singapore and Australia in a bid to fight pirate attacks in the waters off Somalia, the alliance's spokesperson said on Wednesday.

Nato currently has four frigates in the Gulf of Aden fighting piracy. They are set to leave the region on Thursday and visit Karachi, Singapore and Perth in a show of diplomatic goodwill, before returning to anti-piracy tasks in late June.

But Nato ambassadors are now debating whether that schedule can go ahead as planned, or whether the Asia-Pacific tour should be cut to keep the ships in Somali waters longer or bring them back sooner, James Appathurai told journalists in Brussels.

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