New Delhi: PM Narendra Modi will lead a high-level open debate at the UN Security Council (UNSC) to increase maritime security on Monday night at 5.30 through video conferencing.
PM Modi will be the first Indian PM to lead the Open UNC debate.
Done at PM Modi’s initiative, the debate entitled ‘Improving Maritime Security – Cases for International Cooperation’, will be attended by several state heads and governments of Unsc Member States, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Minister of Work State As State Antony Blinken.
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On Wednesday, India conducted a widely awaited sea trial from the Carrier of the First Indigenous Aircraft (IAC) Vikrant who pushed it in while UNSC had discussed various aspects of the maritime security in the past, it would be the first time maritime security.
Discussed in a holistic way as an exclusive agenda item in high-level open debates, the government said.
Is it maritime security? The latest keywords in international relations, maritime security do not have an agreed definition in general.
It classifies problems in the maritime domain consisting of national security, marine environment, economic development, and human security.
In addition to the world sea, it also deals with regional oceans, territorial waters, rivers and ports.
Why is it significant? Maritime security is very important for the world community because there are maritime worries ranging from piracy in the sea to illegal immigration and weapons smuggling.
This is also related to the threat of terrorist attacks and environmental disasters.
The recent incident involving alleged drone attacks on Israeli-controlled tankers in the North Arab Sea from Oman, killing two crew members, is an example.
For India, maritime security is an important aspect of national security because it has a coastline of more than 7,000 km.
With advances in technology, physical threats in the maritime area have now been overshadowed by technological threats.
India’s exports and imports most continue to cross the Indian Ocean shipping path.
Therefore, securing the Sea Line Communication (SLOCS) has been an important problem for India in the 21st century.
China’s growing presence is also a concentapart of other concerns, there are also concerns about China as the power of IOR (the Indian Ocean region) that arises, with its growing trail.
In 2019, the ship ‘Research’ China Shiyan 1, was seen near the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
But it’s not an incident alone.
In August 2020, in the midst of an ongoing conflict in Ladakh Timur at the Sino-India border, China sent Wang class research vessels in the Indian Ocean.
While delivering a lecture in 2019, Indian Navy Chief Karambir Singh said, “All of these traditional and non-traditional challenges require India to make great efforts, resources and continue to develop their strategies for maritime security in the region.” Maritime security is now the Indian Foreign Policy Center.
The ‘sagar’ vision with the aim of deepening economic and security cooperation with its maritime neighbors and helps build their maritime security capabilities.
PM Modi, during his visit to Mauritius, in 2015, was submitted by Sagar’s vision (security and growth for all in the region ‘).
The recent visit by the Minister of External Affairs for neighboring Indian maritime underlined the vision that focuses on cooperative measures for the use of sustainable oceans, and provides a framework for a safe and stable maritime domain.
In this region.
Recently, the National Security Advisor Ajit Doval visited Colombo for Trilateral India-Sri Lanka-Maldives.
Held after a six-year gap, it focuses on maritime security in the Indian Ocean region.
This vision was then described through the Indo-Pacific Ocean Initiative (Ipoi) four years later.
This initiative focuses on seven pillars of maritime security – maritime ecology, maritime resources, capacity building and resource sharing, disaster risk reduction and management, science, technology and academic cooperation and trade and maritime transportation connectivity.
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