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Faced with pirates, NATO must react – Clinton (Us) and Verhagen (Nl)

(B2)In addition to debate in the netherlands on the arrests / release of pirates, the Dutch and American foreign ministers, Maxime Verhagen and Hillary Clinton, asked - , in a joint statement relayed by the Dutch press (read here) - "I'authorization for NATO to stop pirates off Somalia". Set them free (as it happened)"is a bad signal sent to hackers“explained Clinton who received his Dutch counterpart.

Better coordinate international actions. The two ministers also felt that "patrols off Somalia need to be better coordinatedA 'piracy summit' will be held in New York next month, Clinton also announced. 

(NGV)

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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