"Armed robbery against ships" is defined in the Code of
Practice for the Investigation of Crimes of Piracy and Armed Robbery
Against Ships (resolution A.1025(26),
Annex, paragraph 2.2), as follows:
"Armed robbery against ships means any of the following
acts:
.1 any illegal act of violence or detention or any act of
depredation, or threat thereof, other than an act of "piracy", committed
for private ends and directed against a ship or against persons or
property on board such ship, within a State's internal waters, archipelagic
waters and territorial sea;
.2 any act of inciting or of intentionally facilitating
an act described above."