{"id":35660,"date":"2014-12-01T19:49:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T00:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=35660"},"modified":"2014-12-01T22:12:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T03:12:44","slug":"india-wants-to-re-visit-proposal-mooted-by-sirima-bandaranaike-to-maintain-the-indian-ocean-as-a-peace-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=35660","title":{"rendered":"India Wants to  Re-visit Proposal Made by Former Sri Lanka Premier  Sirima Bandaranaike  Decades ago to Maintain the Indian Ocean as a Peace Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> By<\/p>\n<p>Meera Srinivasan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/archives\/18619\/isl031913\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18623\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ISL031913.jpg\" alt=\"ISL031913\" width=\"100\" height=\"80\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18623\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the Indian Ocean has to contribute to the prosperity of different nations, it is necessary that it remains a zone of peace, National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He was delivering the keynote address at the \u2018Galle Dialogue\u2019, held in Sri Lanka&#8217;s southern coastal town of Galle. Evoking a 1971 UNGA resolution, on the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace,<\/p>\n<p> Mr. Doval said it was important to revisit the resolution mooted by Sri Lanka then \u201ccalling upon great powers not to allow escalation and expansion of military presence in the Indian Ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Doval\u2019s remarks come at a time when India has been voicing serious concern over China\u2019s growing military presence in the island. In October, Sri Lanka\u2019s Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa was in New Delhi for a meeting with Mr. Doval and Defence Minister Arun Jaitley where New Delhi raised the issue of a Chinese submarine calling at the port in Colombo.<\/p>\n<p>In his address on Monday, Mr. Doval said India has been a status quoist power in the region for 5,000 years, but it had no aggressive design or strategic reason for dominance that is detrimental to any other country.<\/p>\n<p>He called for cooperation between countries to tackle challenges such as piracy, drug smuggling and human trafficking. India would enhance trilateral cooperation with Sri Lanka and the Maldives, he said, stressing the need for maritime security for prosperity. Over 100 representatives from 36 countries participated in the event with the theme Cooperation &#038; Collaboration for Maritime Prosperity\u2019, organised by Sri Lanka&#8217;s Ministry of Defence and Urban Development.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Hindu<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton35660\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D35660&amp;text=India%20Wants%20to%20%20Re-visit%20Proposal%20Made%20by%20Former%20Sri%20Lanka%20Premier%20%20Sirima%20Bandaranaike%20%20Decades%20ago%20to...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Meera Srinivasan If the Indian Ocean has to contribute to the prosperity of different nations, it is necessary that it remains a zone of peace, National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval said on Monday. He was delivering the keynote address at the \u2018Galle Dialogue\u2019, held in Sri Lanka&#8217;s southern coastal town of Galle. Evoking &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=35660\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;India Wants to  Re-visit Proposal Made by Former Sri Lanka Premier  Sirima Bandaranaike  Decades ago to Maintain the Indian Ocean as a Peace Zone&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35670,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35660\/revisions\/35670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}