United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon echoes call for urgent and coordinated response as IMO launches anti piracy action plan :IMO’s action plan for 2011 has six prime objectives:
• increase pressure at the political level to secure the release of all hostages being held by pirates;
• review and improve the IMO guidelines to Administrations and seafarers and promote compliance with industry best management practice and the recommended preventive, evasive and defensive measures ships should follow;
• promote greater levels of support from, and coordination with, navies;
• promote anti-piracy coordination and co-operation procedures between and among States, regions, organizations and industry;
• assist states to build capacity in piracy-infested regions of the world, and elsewhere, to deter, interdict and bring to justice those who commit acts of piracy and armed robbery against ships; and
• provide care for those attacked or hijacked by pirates and for their families.
