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(THE GIST OF PIB) Goa Maritime Symposium 2024

(SEPTEMBER-2024)

The Indian Navy is hosting the fifth edition of the Goa Maritime Symposium at Naval War College, Goa.

It is a forum for fostering collaborative thinking, cooperation, and mutual understanding between India and key maritime nations of the Indian Ocean Region.
Theme: The theme for the event is Common Maritime Security Challenges in the Indian Ocean Region: Progressing Lines of Efforts to Mitigate Dynamic Threats such as illegal and unregulated fishing and other illegal maritime activities.
It will be participated by the representatives from 12 Indian Ocean Littoral countries- Bangladesh, Comoros, Indonesia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Myanmar, Seychelles, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Observers from Kenya and Tanzania

It was conceptualised and instituted by the Indian Navy in 2016.
It is a forum for fostering collaborative thinking, cooperation and mutual understanding between India and key maritime nations of the Indian Ocean Region (IOR).
The symposium is conducted biennially by the Naval War College (NWC), Goa.