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Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness (IPMDA)
November 19 , 2023
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- India stressed that building networks and partnerships like the IPMDA would be instrumental in ensuring the security and stability of the Indian Ocean Region (IOR).
- The IPMDA was introduced by the Quad group (consisting of India, Australia, Japan, and the US) at the Tokyo summit, 2022.
- It aims to monitor "dark shipping" and create a more comprehensive and precise real-time maritime overview of partner nations' waters.
- It focuses on integrating the Pacific Islands, Southeast Asia, and the Indian Ocean region (IOR) in the Indo-Pacific.
- Dark shipping is a term used to describe a vessel operating with its Automatic Identification System (AIS) turned off.
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