தமிழ்
සිංහල
Written by News 1st
07 Mar, 2014 | 8:35 am
The Indian Ocean-centred maritime security trilateral between India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives will be expanded to include two more island countries.
Seychelles and Mauritius attended the third meeting of the trilateral held in India on Thursday and both had said they were very interested and would like to participate in future interactions, Indian National Security Adviser (NSA) Shiv Shankar Menon has told the Indian media.
India has said that it would like to have a similar system to share information about activity in the Bay of Bengal as well. It has started discussing the concept with its neighbours but “we haven’t figured out what to do on the Bay of Bengal side — whether we replicate the trilateral or expand it to include Indian Ocean countries.” said the NSA.
Mr. Menon was not optimistic about the present trilateral (or the soon-to-be IO-5) being expanded to cover the Bay of Bengal. Most of the Indian Ocean island countries, especially Seychelles and Mauritius, may not be too concerned with maritime domain awareness (MDA) in the Bay of Bengal.
Beginning in 2011 as a concept, the trilateral has reached a state of preparedness from where it is capable of responding to illegal activity such as piracy. “We have put in place a system so all can see the same picture in the maritime area,” said the NSA.
By training people to work together, the trilateral has also built up capacity in responding to search and rescue and oil spills. Sri Lanka and India have also expanded their joint naval exercises to include Maldives.
The Hindu
28 Nov, 2020 | 07:14 PM
07 Jan, 2020 | 07:32 PM
Are you interested in advertising on our website or video channel
Please contact us at [email protected]
News 1st, MTV Channel (Pvt) Ltd, MBC Networks (Pvt) Ltd, 45/3, Braybrooke Street, Colombo-02.
T.P : +94 114 792 700, Fax : +94 114 792 733
[email protected]
Copyright © 2019 MTV Channel (Pvt) Ltd | Web Design by 3CS
T.P : +94 114 792 700
Fax : +94 114 792 733
[email protected]
Copyright © 2019 MTV Channel (Pvt) Ltd
Terms of Use |
News Archive |
About Us
RSS
Web Design by 3CS