{"id":17980,"date":"2025-04-30T03:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T02:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/?p=17980"},"modified":"2025-04-30T03:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T02:03:04","slug":"operation-atalanta-commander-visit-to-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/operation-atalanta-commander-visit-to-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"OPERATION ATALANTA COMMANDER VISIT TO SOMALIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-29-at-14.48.19.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17982\" src=\"https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-29-at-14.48.19.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-29-at-14.48.19.jpeg 1300w, https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-29-at-14.48.19-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-29-at-14.48.19-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-29-at-14.48.19-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-29-at-14.48.19-720x540.jpeg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"text-align-justify\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Operation ATALANTA Commander, Vice Admiral Ignacio Villanueva Serrano, attended the EU-Somalia Political Dialogue,<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>between EU Member States Ambassadors, EU Ambassador, the Heads of Mission and H.E. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, President of the Federal Republic of Somalia.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li class=\"text-align-justify\"><em>H.E. Salah Ahmed Jama, Deputy Prime Minister of the<\/em>\u00a0<em>Federal Republic of Somalia, visited the ATALANTA frigate ESPS Reina Sofia to discuss about maritime security and learn about the training conducted to the Somali Police Force &#8211; Department of Coast Guard.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">From 21 to 24 April, Operation ATALANTA Operation Commander Vice Admiral Ignacio Villanueva Serrano visited Somalia. He attended the EU-Somalia Political Dialogue, an opportunity to review the priorities under the EU-Somalia Joint Operational Roadmap launched in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vice Admiral Villanueva participated in different meetings between EU and Somalia focusing on piracy, arms embargo, information sharing and\u00a0Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing and to discuss the EU-Somalia activities with H.E. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, President of the Federal Republic of Somalia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other meetings were held to address the current collaboration with the other EU missions on the ground, EUTM and EUCAP Somalia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-29-at-14.48.05-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17981\" src=\"https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-29-at-14.48.05-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-29-at-14.48.05-2.jpeg 1300w, https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-29-at-14.48.05-2-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-29-at-14.48.05-2-1024x681.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-29-at-14.48.05-2-768x511.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"text-align-justify\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Activities on board ESPS Reina Sofia\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 24 April, with the presence of Operation ATALANTA Commander Vice Admiral Ignacio Villanueva Serrano, the frigate ESPS Reina Sofia received on board H.E. Salah Ahmed Jama, Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Somalia, off the coast of Somalia. The event was also attended by H.E. Karin Johansson, the European Union Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Somalia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the visit, they were briefed on the ship&#8217;s capabilities and the work of Operation ATALANTA with Somalia fighting piracy and illicit fishing activities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The visit was an opportunity to strengthen the cooperation in maritime security between Somalia and the EU, and to observe the training provided to\u00a0the Somali Police Force &#8211; Department of Coast Guard with the coordination of EUCAP Somalia. Additionally,\u00a0CRIMARIO II\u00a0supported the Safety at Sea coordination exercise via the IORIS platform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Operation ATALANTA\u2019s sister missions EUTM Somalia and EUCAP Somalia, the Swedish Ambassador to Somalia, as well as various authorities from European Union to Somalia also visited the frigate during the event.<\/p>\n<p>Source : EU Naval Force Operation ATALANTA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operation ATALANTA Commander, Vice Admiral Ignacio Villanueva Serrano, attended the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,1378,442,1673],"tags":[1493,2687,2105,31,32,1485,1377,1388,1672,1674],"class_list":["post-17980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-maritime-security","category-news","category-somalia","tag-africa-en","tag-daily-news","tag-eu-navfor-somalia","tag-maritimafrica","tag-maritime","tag-maritime-in-africa","tag-maritime-security-en","tag-news","tag-operation-atalanta","tag-somalia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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