By IRNA,
New Delhi : India will host the largest four-day naval wargame, Milan-2010, involving 12 nations in the Asia Pacific region from Thursday at Port Blair in Andaman and Nicobar Island.
The four-day event ‘Milan-2010’, which begins February 4, would have participation from Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam.
“There would be a discussion on maritime terror and the means to counter the attacks like what happened in Mumbai (during Milan-2010),” Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Foreign Cooperation and Intelligence) Rear Admiral Sudharshan Shrikhande told reporters here today.
Among other issues to be discussed would be illegal entry of foreign ships into the waters of the respective countries, just as India had experienced when a North Korean vessel anchored off Andaman and Nicobar Islands last year and had to be apprehended.
The seventh edition of Milan, being organised by the Indian Navy at Port Blair once in two years since 1995, would have nine naval ships from eight countries and representatives from four others participating in a tabletop exercises, apart from a passage exercise at sea and a seminar on Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR).
The meet assumes significance in view of the increasing maritime trade and security threats.