Russia seeks solution to pirate problem

Russia is urging the global community to look for a common legal solution within the UN for the trial of pirates, Andrei Nesterenko, spokesman for Russia's Foreign Ministry said Thursday. He added that bilateral agreements in this sphere are not efficient. He stressed that despite the measures of the global community the number of pirate attacks on commercial ships had increased in 2009 and Somalia pirates are already acting beyond the Gulf of Aden. Though more and more combat ships are heading to the Indian Ocean the naval measures are not enough and it is necessary to fight piracy on land, he said. Among the causes of the Somalia piracy Nesterenko named the 20-year-long civil war in Somali, the loss of control over the situation by the authorities and the poor social situation in the country.