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IMMSAREX 2017 - Bangladesh
November 28 , 2017
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- The International Multilateral Maritime Search and Rescue Exercise 2017 (IMMSAREX 2017) was held in Cox Bazar, Bangladesh.
- The exercise was inaugurated by Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina and it will be held under the aegis of Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS).
- Indian Naval Ships (INS) Ranvir, Sahyadri, Gharial and Sukanya along with one Maritime Patrol Aircraft P-8I will be participating in the exercise.
- Indian Navy Admiral Sunil Lanba, represented India in the exercise.
- It is a voluntary initiative that seeks to increase maritime co-operation among navies of the littoral states of the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) by providing an open and inclusive forum for discussion of regionally relevant maritime issues.
- Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS) was started as an initiative by Indian Navy in 2008 and it has now grown into a formidable organisation with 23 ‘Member’ nations and ‘Nine’ observer countries.
- Bangladesh is the current chair of IONS and is conducting the first ever operational exercise called ‘IMMSAREX’ under the IONS Charter.
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