Australia is to host international talks next year to tackle piracy, hoping to stop a crime that has seen hundreds of people taken hostage in this year, Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd said on Friday.
Mr. Rudd made the announcement at a forum on Indian Ocean Piracy held on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in the West Australian city of Perth.
Piracy is now rife off the coast of Somalia and is spreading to other regions around Africa and Mr. Rudd said it had not only increased the costs of global trade but harmed some countries' fishing and tourism industries.
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