Indian Navy IONS

Hii sir, I wants to get the Information About the ‘Indian Ocean Naval Symposium’ Will you Please provide It ?

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The ‘Indian Ocean Naval Symposium’ (IONS) is a voluntary initiative that seeks to increase maritime co-operation among navies of the littoral states of the Indian Ocean Region by providing an open and inclusive forum for discussion of regionally relevant maritime issue

Principal Objectives for the IONS Construct

- To promote a shared understanding of the maritime issues facing the littoral nation-states of the Indian Ocean and the formulation of a common set of strategies designed to enhance regional maritime security.

- To strengthen the capability of all littoral nation-states of the Indian Ocean to address present and anticipated challenges to maritime security and stability.

- To establish and promote a variety of trans-national, maritime, cooperative-mechanisms designed to mitigate maritime-security concerns within the Indian Ocean.


Organization of IONS

There are 35 members - navies of the IONS which have been geographically grouped into the following four sub-regions:-

South Asian Littorals
Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Pakistan, Seychelles and Sri Lanka

West Asian Littorals
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Yemen

East African Littorals
Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eriteria, France, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan and Tanzania

South East Asian and Australian Littorals
Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand and Timor Leste