The race between the pirates and the world is being won by the pirates,

The world is losing the battle against piracy, the Somali transitional government's foreign minister warned Monday in Dubai, as he and other officials emphasised that the solution to piracy lies on land.
"The race between the pirates and the world is being won by the pirates," Mohammed Abdulahi Omar Asharq told a counter-piracy conference in Dubai.
"Consequently the status quo view that manages acts of piracy is no longer a viable strategy. It is equally clear that piracy can only be uprooted on land, where it grows and persists," Asharq said.
United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan emphasised the same point.
"There is no doubt that any actions taken in the field of countering piracy would not be effective unless essential changes in security and stability on land in Somalia are made," he said.
And Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, the chairman of giant ports operator DP World, which co-sponsored the conference with the UAE foreign ministry, said a prosperous and peaceful Somalia is the long-term solution to the problem of pirates based there.
"The current international focus is in finding near-term, offshore solutions for the piracy menace," Sulayem said. But "it is increasingly clear that the community of nations need to be thinking also long-term, and on shore."
"This is because stable, prosperous economies are the only effective, enduring solution to piracy, which feeds on the lack of opportunity to make honest money, the lack of structure, the lack of security, and the lack of hope for a stable future," he added.
The two-day conference opened just days after maritime watchdog the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said that worldwide pirate attacks in the first three months of 2011, driven by Somali pirates, were the highest ever at 142.
Somalia has been bereft of a stable government and torn by civil war since the 1991 overthrow of president Mohamed Siad Barre.
Piracy has made shipping increasingly perilous off the Horn of Africa and led to the deployment of various international naval forces to protect the key maritime corridor.

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