The UN Security Council is committed to fighting piracy in the Gulf of Guinea. It unanimously adopted on Tuesday a resolution to intensify the fight.

After a favourable vote by the 15 members of the Security Council, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the UN, who presided over the Council in May, said that the resolution was "an important step forward".Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, who presided over the Council in May, announced that the resolution "2634 (2022) was adopted unanimously". This UN Security Council resolution "strongly condemns piracy and armed robbery at sea, including acts of murder, kidnapping and hostage-taking, in the Gulf of Guinea.

The text urges "Member States of the Gulf of Guinea region to act swiftly, at the national and regional levels, with the support of the international community (...), to develop and implement maritime security strategies". It calls on "Member States of the region to criminalize piracy and armed robbery at sea under their national legislation".

For the Norwegian ambassador to the UN, Mona Juul, with "more than 1,000 ships passing through the waters of the Gulf of Guinea every day", piracy also concerns the "dozens of countries investing in Central and Southern Africa".