{"id":3196,"date":"2019-05-22T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T06:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=3196"},"modified":"2019-05-22T12:00:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T06:30:20","slug":"maritime-security-enhanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/maritime-security-enhanced\/","title":{"rendered":"MARITIME SECURITY ENHANCED"},"content":{"rendered":"

Relevant for prelims and GS paper 3 (National Security)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Navy ships from\u00a0Myanmar\u00a0<\/span><\/a>reached\u00a0Port Blair\u00a0<\/span><\/a>to attend the opening ceremony of the 8th Indo-Myanmar\u00a0<\/span><\/a>Coordinated Patrol (IMCOR) which will be held from May 20-28.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Myanmar\u00a0<\/span><\/a>Navy Ship UMS\u00a0King\u00a0<\/span><\/a>TabinShweHtee (773) and UMS Inlay (OPV-54) have arrived at\u00a0Port Blair\u00a0<\/span><\/a>on May 20 for the ‘Opening Ceremony’ of the 8th Indo-Myanmar coordinated patrol (IMCOR), at\u00a0Andaman and Nicobar Command.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0The Myanmar delegation led by\u00a0Commodore\u00a0<\/span><\/a>Htein Win, Commander,\u00a0Ayeyarwady Naval\u00a0<\/span><\/a>Command, called on Cmde Ashutosh Ridhorkar, VSM,\u00a0Naval Component\u00a0<\/span><\/a>Commander\u00a0<\/span><\/a>on May 20,” a press release by the\u00a0Ministry of Defense\u00a0<\/span><\/a>read.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Myanmar ships UMS\u00a0King\u00a0<\/span><\/a>TabinShweHtee and UMS Inlay would undertake a coordinated patrol (CORPAT) with Indian Naval Ship Saryu under the program.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ships will patrol along the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) between the two\u00a0countries\u00a0<\/span><\/a>covering a distance of roughly 725 kilometres in four days, augmented by patrol aircraft from both navies.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The ships will also undertake joint manoeuvres and drills during the sea phase of CORPAT prior to the ‘Closing Ceremony’ of the CORPAT onboard Myanmar Naval Ship,” it went on to add.<\/span><\/p>\n

CORPAT, first held in March 2013, has enhanced the mutual understanding and fostered improved professional interaction between the two navies for maritime interoperability.<\/span><\/p>\n

The statement also mentioned the importance of CORPAT in eliminating threats of terrorism, drug trafficking and other illegal activities which harm the interests of both nations.<\/span><\/p>\n

“CORPAT initiative between the two navies is meant to address issues of terrorism, illegal fishing, drug trafficking, human trafficking, poaching and other illegal activities inimical to the interest of both nations,” the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Relevant for prelims and GS paper 3 (National Security) Navy ships from\u00a0Myanmar\u00a0reached\u00a0Port Blair\u00a0to attend the opening ceremony of the 8th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[853,391,571,545,460,413,352,392,390],"class_list":["post-3196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-civil-service-exam","tag-civil-services-exam","tag-general-knowledge","tag-general-studies","tag-general-studies-prelims","tag-ias","tag-prelims","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc","tag-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3197,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions\/3197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}