Highlighting the significance of collaboration and interoperability among the many coast guards personnel of the Maldives, India and Sri Lanka, Maldivian Defence Minister Mohamed Ghassan Maumoon stated the trilateral train Dosti’ will unite the troika to deal with shared maritime safety considerations by collaboration.
Maumoon was talking at an occasion to formally inaugurate the sixteenth iteration of Dosti, the biennial train, which started on Thursday and would proceed till Sunday.
Indian Coast Guard ship Samarth and ICGS Abhinav together with Sri Lanka Naval Ship Samudura are taking part within the train DOSTI-16′ whereas Bangladesh is taking part as an observer.
Sri Lanka has described Dosti’ as a trilateral train that goals to reinforce cooperation, strengthen friendship, enhance mutual operational functionality, and develop interoperability among the many Coast Guard personnel of India, the Maldives, and Sri Lanka.
Scheduled from February twenty second to 25, the train gives taking part forces with alternatives to interact in numerous maritime actions, together with interdiction operations, search and rescue missions, surveillance, and communication drills,” the Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF) stated in a press release. These actions goal to reinforce their collective functionality to reply to maritime safety and security challenges, it stated.
Ministers of the Maldivian authorities, in addition to the Chief of Defence Force, Lieutenant General Abdul Raheem Abdul Latheef, Vice Chief of Defence Force, Brigadier General Ibrahim Hilmy, Additional Director General of Indian Coast Guard, ADG S Paramesh, and a few international ambassadors, took half within the inauguration ceremony that was held on February 22, the MNDF assertion stated late on Friday night time.
Speaking on the occasion, Maumoon emphasised the significance of better collaboration between the coast guards of Maldives, India and Sri Lanka to deal with shared maritime safety considerations.
Exercise Dosti’ focuses on regional cooperation in areas corresponding to search and rescue, medical evacuations, countering piracy, air pollution response, in addition to humanitarian help and catastrophe reduction efforts.
According to Edition.mv, a news portal, Maumoon stated, that President Dr Mohamed Muizzu’s administration locations the best precedence on making certain that shut relations, peace and stability are maintained between Maldives and neighbouring nations.
He stated that the President has assured that he’ll concentrate on sustaining regional stability and famous that Sri Lanka’s participation within the coaching since 2012 has introduced additional development to the programme, the portal stated.
Trilateral Joint Exercise ‘EX-DOSTI-16’ begins. Minister of Defence @mgmaumoon graced the inauguration ceremony, emphasising the significance of this historic occasion in uniting the Coast Guards of Maldives, India and Sri Lanka to deal with shared maritime safety considerations by collaboration, the MNDF posted on its official X deal with together with images from the occasion late on Friday night time native time.
Apart from the formal inauguration, Munu Mahawar, High Commissioner of India and S Paramesh, ADG Indian Coast Guard, additionally welcomed Mohamed Ghassan Maumoon, Minister of Defence, Maldives, and Moosa Zameer, Foreign Minister, Maldives onboard ICGS Samarth for trilateral train DOSTI XVI. Strengthening bonds and fostering cooperation amongst our maritime neighbours! the Indian Coast Guard posted on X together with the images of the go to.
The trainings … will embody maritime interdiction operations, ocean search and rescue operations, maritime surveillance and communication drills, Edition.mv stated, including that the coaching actions are being held within the Male space and surrounding seas.
The ‘Dosti’ sequence of naval workout routines had begun in 1992 with solely Maldives and India. Sri Lanka joined the programme in 2012 and this 12 months, within the sixteenth version, the Bangladesh Coast Guard too has joined as an observer.
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