{"id":153234,"date":"2021-12-14T18:56:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T13:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=153234"},"modified":"2021-12-14T18:56:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T13:26:36","slug":"india-lays-emphasis-on-unclos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-lays-emphasis-on-unclos\/","title":{"rendered":"India lays emphasis on UNCLOS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the news?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Government of India has informed Parliament that India is <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">committed to a free, open and rules-based order. It has also reiterated its support<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/uss-freedom-of-navigation-operation\/\"><b><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Click Here to read about UNCLOS<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5><b>India\u2019s Commitment to Maritime Security<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India is committed to safeguarding maritime interests and strengthening security in the Indian Ocean Region to ensure a favourable and positive maritime environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It supports freedom of navigation and overflight and unimpeded commerce based on the principles of UNCLOS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><b>Note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> These statements come in the backdrop of the Chinese Navy increasing its presence into the Indian Ocean considered the backyard of the Indian Navy.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Maritime Cooperation of India\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has developed its maritime cooperation with regional partners in sync with its vision of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-sends-tech-team-to-contain-mauritius-oil-spill\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Security and Growth for All in the Region (SAGAR).<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The steps taken include \u2018<strong>Mission based Deployments<\/strong>\u2019 of naval ships and aircraft to enhance <strong>Maritime Domain Awareness<\/strong>, promote maritime security and address contingencies that may arise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, India proactively engaged with <strong>regional and extra-regional maritime forces<\/strong> through multilateral exercises, joint surveillance, coordinated patrols among others to promote maritime security in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Must Read<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/how-india-is-increasing-its-maritime-domain-awareness\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">How India is increasing its Maritime Domain Awareness?<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cIndia lays emphasis on UNCLOS<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 14th Dec 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the news? The Government of India has informed Parliament that India is committed to a free, open and rules-based order. It has also reiterated its support for the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Click Here to read about UNCLOS India\u2019s Commitment to Maritime Security India is committed to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-lays-emphasis-on-unclos\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India lays emphasis on UNCLOS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-153234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704902241},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}