A Regional Regime for Maritime Surveillance, Safety and Information Exchanges

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A maritime surveillance, safety and information regime is proposed, to address lower profile security issues in East Asia. Its objectives would be to help safeguard the peaceful merchant shipping of the region; to create a secure context for the sustained exploitation of the resources of the sea; to contribute to the preservation of the marine environment; and to develop a framework of cooperation that could provide the basis for dealing with higher order contingencies that might arise in this rapidly developing region.It is suggested that the regime could best be established by a series of modest steps dealing with non-controversial matters. Measures suggested include the establishment of networks of cooperation to implement regulations (such as the proposed port-state control network for control of shipping), involving government agencies, commercial groups and regional navies; setting up a database to coordinate and distribute throughout the region open-sourced strategic maritime in

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