MOGADISHU, Dec 9 (Xinhua) -- Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed on Wednesday urged the nascent navy and army force of the war-torn country to fight Islamist insurgency in land and the rampant piracy off Somali coast.

"The pirates who are seeking illicit gains by hijacking foreign ships in our waters are sullying the good name of Somalia so they are to be fought and eradicated," President Ahmed told navy cadets in Mogadishu.

The president said that the pirates were a problem to Somalia as much as they were to other nations and urged the newly trained navy force to be part of the global efforts to fight piracy off Somali coast and the Gulf of Aden.

The leader who was speaking with the new Somali navy force, reminded the international community that foreign illegal fishing and the dumping of industrial waste was also a problem that should be addressed in parallel with piracy.

Piracy off the war-torn country wrecks havoc on international as well as commercial ships for Somalia despite the presence of several foreign warships patrolling the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden who have recently been extending their reach.

The Somali president reiterated that the Islamist insurgent fighting his government were behind the killing of three ministers in a hotel blast that also left dozens of other people, mainly civilians, dead and scores of others wounded.

Both Islamist movements, Al Shabaab and Hezbul Islam opposed to the government distanced themselves from the attack, blaming what they characterized as "in-fighting" within the government's security apparatus.

The president, who was clad in military uniform as he spoke with security forces in Mogadishu, vowed that the Somali security forces would step up their fight against the rebels who wage near daily attacks on Somali government and African Union peacekeepers based in Mogadishu.