Re: USA plans to build a 1,000 ship Navy
‘India, US not uniting against oceanic crimes’
Thursday, May 17, 2007
NEW DELHI: India’s External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday ruled out his country’s joining the US in developing a worldwide network to combat oceanic crimes, stating that there was no such proposal from the US Navy.
Addressing the Lok Sabha, he said that India was already party to two United Nations conventions on crimes on high seas and as such had not considered joining any other network apart from these. He said the issue was separate from India-US defence cooperation.
Mukherjee said large maritime crimes take place when ships are on the high seas, endangering their safety and security, but such crimes are always tackled through UN conventions. He said the Indian Navy had once liberated a Japanese ship hijacked under these conventions, while an Indian ship in Somali waters had been similarly rescued from pirates. iftikhar gilani
Oops, looks like the American dream has been flushed down the toilet.