Thailand to push for enhanced maritime cooperation among Indian Ocean coastal states at Leaders' Summit

 

BANGKOK, 6 March 2017 (NNT) - Thailand will attend the Leaders’ Summit in Commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA), scheduled for 7 March 2017 in Jakarta, Indonesia. 

Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak will lead the Thai Delegation to attend the Summit. Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai will attend the IORA Council of Ministers today in preparation for the Summit. 

This Leaders’ Summit will be the organization’s first Summit to be held since its establishment in 1997. The Summit theme is “Maritime Cooperation for a Peaceful, Stable and Prosperous Indian Ocean.” 

It will be a good opportunity for Thailand to contribute to the regional efforts on sustainable and responsible development of blue economy, express our readiness and potential to develop land and maritime infrastructure to become the region’s logistics and transportation hub, linking the maritime connectivity between the Indian and the Pacific Ocean. 

IORA is a regional forum which promotes multifaceted cooperation of the 21 Indian Ocean Rim states from Australia to South East Asia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Africa under several areas of cooperation, including maritime safety and security, fisheries management, trade and investment facilitation, and academic cooperation. IORA also gives priority to Blue Economy and Women’s Economic Empowerment as two cross-cutting issues.

 

-- nnt 2017-03-06

Good job we've ordered those submarines  

Good Heavens!

Thailand is not the Hub of the  Indian Ocean Coastal States?

Better add an aircraft carrier.

7 hours ago, webfact said:

The Summit theme is “Maritime Cooperation for a Peaceful, Stable and Prosperous Indian Ocean.”

As a representative of a country on the helm of those that pollute the ocean the most, ignored almost all UDD directives for years, I would not even go near a summit under a theme like that.

 

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Edited March 6, 20179 yr by Lupatria

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand to push for enhanced maritime cooperation among Indian Ocean coastal states at Leaders' Summit

Have you heard the expression "when push comes to shove?"