A、a year. B、two months C、dozen days. D、a month. A

(7) The United Nations Security Council has approved a resolution valid for a year, allowing fireign military, forces to pursue pirates on land in Somalia. Pirates are ah’eady holding about a dozen captured ships including a Saudi super tanker. From the UN, Lorry Trevelyan reports.
    The UN Security Council has already authorized countries to enter Somalia’s territorial waters and chase pirates. (8) Now, countries will be able to chase pirates on land too, provided they have the consent of Somalia’s transitional government. Piracy is rife off Somalia’s coastline, a symptonl of the county’s descent into chaos.