Prime Minister Narenda Modi will chair a meeting on dealing with International Cooperation on Maritime Security. Several heads of state and government from UN Security Council (UNSC) member nations, as well as high-level briefers from the UN system and major regional organizations, will attend the meeting.
This makes the prime minister the first Indian to chair a debate at the United Nations Security Council. The open debate, which will take place through a conference at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow, will focus on methods to successfully combat maritime crime and instability, as well as improving maritime domain collaboration.
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According to the Prime Minister’s Office, the UNSC has debated and approved resolutions on various elements of maritime security and maritime crime, but this makes for a welcome change in highlighting the importance of maritime security in a global context. Pushing this as an exclusive agenda gives hope for the issue to be considered and highlighted globally.
PM Modi proposed the SAGAR (Security and Growth for All in the Region) vision in 2015, which centred on cooperative measures for sustainable ocean usage and provided a framework for a reliable, stable, and conflict-free maritime environment in the region.
The Indo-Pacific Oceans’ Initiative (IPOI) was launched in 2019 at the East Asia Summit, with a focus on seven pillars of maritime security, including Disaster Risk Reduction and Management, Technology and Academic Cooperation, Maritime Ecology, Trade Connectivity and Maritime Transport, Maritime Resources, Capacity Building, and Resource Sharing.
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