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(10 Jun 2009) SHOTLIST 1. Wide shot Italian Presidential Palace, Quirinale 2. Mid of flags 3. Wide of Italian President Giorgio Napolitano and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi at lecterns 4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic and Italian translation) Moammar Gadhafi, Libyan leader: "We talked about the problem of piracy, we have to find what is the motive for the presence of this phenomenon and not just the phenomenon itself." 5. Wide of news briefing 6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic and Italian translation) Moammar Gadhafi, Libyan leader: "I told my friend the president of Italy that I am about to present a draft agreement to get Somalia to resolve this problem. On the one hand that the Somali national waters would be respected and on the other hand the Somalis would stop the piracy." 7. Napolitano and Gadhafi shaking hands 8. Wide of Italian Foreign Ministry 9. Close of Italian flag 10. Wide of news briefing by Ahmedou Ould-Abdalla, United Nation's envoy to Somalia, and Somali Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahmedou Ould-Abdalla, United Nation's envoy to Somalia: "We had a very fruitful discussion on piracy. First, there is no dispute. We agree that the root causes of piracy are on land. Poverty, lack of discipline, and a lack of a government totally controlling the situation. At the same time we recognise the positive role of the international military presence. The naval presence has been seen, especially at my level, as a great gesture of solidarity with those Somali people and with the region because piracy, we should not forget, that piracy increases the prices of goods and services for the poor. It threatens the environment. If an oil tanker is hit, you have a huge spillover." 12. Ould-Abdalla shaking hands with Somali Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke STORYLINE Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi said on Wednesday that he was working on a draft agreement to help resolve the problem of piracy off the coast of Somalia. Gadhafi made the announcement on the first day of his visit to Italy, during a meeting with President Giorgio Napolitano in Rome. "We have to find what is the motive for the presence of this phenomenon and not just the phenomenon itself," the Libyan leader stressed. "I am about to present a draft agreement to get Somalia to resolve this problem," Gadhafi added. He did not elaborate. Rampant piracy off Somalia's coast is now the biggest threat to merchant shipping, with most attacks ending with (m) million-dollar ransom payments. As the Libyan leader made his comment, the International Contact Group on Somalia met on the other side of the Italian capital. The UN envoy to Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdalla, discussed the piracy crisis with Somali Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke. After the talks, Ould-Abdalla stressed that the root cause of piracy lies on land. He identified poverty, a lack of discipline and "a lack of a government totally controlling the situation," as part of the problem. "Piracy increases the prices of goods and services for the poor. It threatens the environment," Ould-Abdalla added. Piracy off Somalia's coast has emerged recently as the biggest threat to global merchant shipping. So far this year, bandits operating in and around the Gulf of Aden have attacked at least 81 ships and hijacked 29 of them, even though the waters are patrolled by international navy task forces. The pirates operate freely because Somalia has had no effective central government in nearly 20 years. Nearly every public institution has crumbled, and the weak, UN-backed government is fighting an Islamic insurgency. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...