Representatives of 24 countries will gather next month in New York City to examine legal measures in the battle against piracy off Somalia, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday. “There will be, at our request, a meeting of the International Piracy Contact Group in New York City in early May,” Clinton told reporters at the State Department. “We're going to have to determine the best way to bring pirates to justice after they're captured,” Clinton said as she met with Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen of the Netherlands. Clinton said the United States wants to “seek more effective ways to hold these pirates criminally responsible for their actions, which threaten not only the lives of merchant seamen but the security of critical maritime routes.”
