UNSC calls for prompt action to fight piracy in Gulf of Guinea, India expresses readiness; India abstains from UNHRC resolution on Syria; Prosecutor for war crimes tribunal appointed
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    • According to reports, the UN Security Council urged the countries of the Gulf of Guinea region to take prompt action to develop and implement counter piracy and armed robbery at sea. The countries were also urged to work through regional organizations towards convening of the planned joint summit of Gulf of Guinea States to develop a regional anti-piracy strategy in cooperation with the African Union. 1 On the same occasion, India expressed its readiness to contribute to international efforts to tackle the threat of piracy. The Indian representative to the Council also added that it was quite possible that the failure of the international community to act decisively against piracy off the coast of Somalia could have spawned a new surge in piracy in the Gulf of Guinea. 2

    Meanwhile, India and two other countries abstained from the UN Human Rights Council resolution that called on Syria to end all rights abuses and to allow aid agencies ‘free and unimpeded’ access to the victims. Out of the 47 members of the body, 37 voted in favour and 3 abstained. Russia and China voted against the text. 3

    In other developments, a prosecutor was appointed by the UN Security Council for a term of four years to finish the remaining tasks of the UN war crimes tribunals for former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, while the body’s president was appointed by the UN General-Secretary. 4

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