Since October 15th EUCAP NESTOR has installed a six person unit in Hargheisa (Somaliland). Before end of November, the program’s maritime security and police experts will invest Mogadishu with a team of the same dimension. The opening of a EUCAP NESTOR Office in Puntland within the next six months is also considered.
EUCAP NESTOR Head of Mission Etienne de Poncins affirmed the team’s willingness to focus action on Somalia. As naval operations, such as EUNAVFOR Atalanta, managed to contain piracy at sea, the task is now resolve the problem on land. Mr de Poncins was to add the air surveillance means have shown a persistence of pirate camps throughout the region. In such a context, EUCAP NESTOR team will undertake the assistance to Somalian forces in identifying the pirates and dismantling the camps.
In such endeavors, EUCAP NESTOR will certainly benefit from EUVAFOR Atalanta’s mandate extension until December 2016 decided Friday November 21st and modification. In deed Atalanta will be authorized to bring logistic support, expertise and training at sea capabilities to other EU capacity building projects in the region. These modifications concern EUCAP NESTOR and EUTM-Somalia, the European military training mission for the Transitional Federal Government forces.
EUCAP NESTOR is not a CMR project.
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