http://www.english.hadhramaut.info Yemen prepares to host regional conference on sea piracy [The Source: www.sabanews.net - 22/1/2009] Yemen in collaboration with Britain is preparing currently to host a regional conference on sea piracy and drug trafficking to be held

10-11 February in the capital Sana'a. In a statement to the 26september weekly, chairman of the Yemeni Coastguards Authority Ali Rassa said the regional conference will be under auspices Prime Minister Ali Mujawar and officials of coastguards authorities in Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Djibouti, Egypt and Pakistan. "The conference will be attended by representatives of the Coalition forces in the region of America, France and Britain in order to discuss the acts of maritime piracy and drug trafficking in the Horn of Africa. Ali Rassa pointed out Yemen will submit a vision during the conference to deal with the piracy in the Gulf of Aden and to promote regional and international cooperation to reduce the dangerous piracy phenomena.