India and Myanmar to boost maritime security
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India and Myanmar are in the advanced stage of signing an information-sharing agreement to boost maritime security that will make them able to cover the whole Bay of Bengal region along with Bangladesh and Thailand.
The agreement is intended to help the two nations to exchange information and improve crisis response in the maritime domain, according to the New Indian Express report.
"The details have been worked out with Myanmar on White Shipping Information sharing," said an official.
"India has a similar arrangement with Mauritius, Seychelles and Maldives also," he added.
India has similar agreements with Bangladesh and Thailand in the Bay of Bengal region.
Taking into account the high degree of dependence of the above countries on maritime trade and the emerging asymmetric challenges, India had signed a similar agreement with Thailand in 2018 to exchange information to raise maritime domain awareness, a greater degree of coordinated patrols, and anti-piracy measures as areas of immediate importance.
They also explored the possibility of cooperation in hydrographic surveys.
India and Bangladesh had also signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU)in October this year on establishing a Coastal Surveillance Radar System in Bangladesh.
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