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Article: ESDP : POSITIVE INTERIM ASSESSMENT OF ATALANTA OPERATION.
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- European Report
- Article date:
- May 15, 2009
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Halfway through the Atalanta mission, Rear Admiral Philip Jones (UK) considered that the two set objectives were well on their way to being achieved. "We were successfully able to escort all the WFP [World Food Programme] ships. Likewise, there was a significant reduction in the number of pirates, particularly during the first three months of 2009," he declared, on 13 May in Brussels, after having met the Political and Security Committee (which exercises political control and sets the strategic direction of the operation), while at the same time a new merchant ship was attacked by two pirate skiffs.
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