MARITIME SAFETY COMMITTEE
71st session
Agenda item 15
MSC 71/15/3
19 February 1999
Original: ENGLISH
PIRACY AND ARMED ROBBERY AGAINST SHIPS
Mission of experts to, and regional seminar and workshop on piracy and armed robbery against ships held in, Brazil (October 1998)
Note by the Secretariat
SUMMARY
Executive summary: This document reports on the October 1998 mission of experts to Brazil and on the regional seminar and workshop held in Brasilia for selected Latin American and Wider Caribbean region countries.
Action to be taken: Paragraph 3
Related documents: MSC 71/15/1 and MSC 71/15/2
1 The Committee, as its sixty-ninth session (MSC 69/22, paragraph 16.4), noted that, pursuant to its instruction at its sixty-eighth session, the Secretary-General had entered into consultations with the Ambassadors and High Commissioners in London of countries in whose waters piracy and armed robbery had most frequently been reported and, that as a result of these consultations, agreement had been reached for the Organization to send missions of experts to a selected number of such countries to further discuss the implementation in those countries of the IMO guidelines for preventing and suppressing piracy and armed robbery against ships (MSC/Circs.622 and 623). The missions were to be followed by regional seminars and workshops intended to assist Governments and officials in the countries concerned to enhance their capability for combating such unlawful acts in their waters.
2 At its seventieth session, the Committee received a preliminary report on the mission of experts to Brazil and on a regional seminar and workshop held in Brasilia in October 1998 for selected Latin American and Wider Caribbean region countries. The Committee instructed the Secretariat to submit the reports to the present session and agreed to discuss them in detail at this session. Given at annexes 1 and 2 are the report of the mission of experts to Brazil and the report on the regional seminar and workshop respectively.
