Denmark will remain committed to patrolling the seas in anti-piracy operations, and is pushing other larger nations to commit too.
Deputy director-general Birgit Solling Olsen of the Danish Maritime Authority told a security conference at Danish Maritime Days in Copenhagen today: “If a small country can do it there is no excuse for bigger countries.”
She said that while piracy off Somalia had been cut back in recent years, it had not been totally eradicated, but the growth in piracy in the Gulf of Guinea was “worrying”.
Denmark’s strategy for anti-piracy operations from this year through to 2018, Olsen, said was to stay engaged in the Horn of Africa, with the Gulf of Guinea becoming a new focus area.
