Washington,November 21 (QNA) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has formed an adhoc panel under her national security adviser eliot cohen to explore measures that could be adopted to front the somali piracy in the horn of africa. the state secretary spokesman Sean McCormack said in a statement aired over radio sawa today that the un security council has renewed the issue of teh resolution no. 1816 combating such a piracy and said in the meantime that the cause is very complicated as far as bringing proper solutions for it is concerned. ''''We are participating in a NATO task force that is escorting humanitarian shipments into Somalia. We do have ships in the area, as do other countries. You’re still dealing with a million square miles of ocean to cover.... When ships encounter piracy and the pirates are firing on those ships, then they’re free to fire, as we saw with the Indian Government yesterday. So we’re trying to...work with other governments to get a handle on this. ...It’s not going to be something the United States solves alone'''',s aid Sean McCormack . Sean McCormack has confirmed that maintaining stability in somlia could help positively affect what is going on in the gulf of aden. (Qna) MD