Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP) 18/06/2019 – Posted in: Press Information Bureau

Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP)

(Ministry of Defence)

WHAT

Indian Coast Guard (ICG) will be co-hosting the 12th Capacity Building workshop with Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP) Information Sharing Centre (ISC) on June 19-20, 2019.

  • India played an active role in the setting up and functioning of ReCAAPISC along with Japan and Singapore.
  • India has hosted this workshop earlier in November 2011 at Goa and December 2017 in New Delhi.

 

ReCAAP AGREEMENT

The three pillars of co-operation under the ReCAAP agreement are:

  1. Information sharing
  2. Capacity building
  3. Mutual legal assistance

 

ReCAAP

  • The ReCAAP is the first regional Government-to-Government agreement to deal with piracy and armed robbery at sea in Asia.
  • The ReCAAP Agreement was launched in November 2006 with14 Asian Contracting Parties including North, Southeast, and South Asian countries.
  • It has 20 Contracting Parties today, including Europe (Norway, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom), Australia, and the United States.
  • The ReCAAP Information Sharing Centre (ReCAAP ISC) was established in Singapore on November 29, 2006.
  • At the 12th Governing Council Meeting in 2018, the Council announced that ReCAAP ISC has met the criteria to be a Centre of Excellence for information sharing in combating piracy and armed robbery against ships at sea.

 

ICS

  • An ISC has been established in Singapore to collate and disseminate the information among the contracting parties and the maritime community.
  • Capacity building workshop is organized annually by the ISC and is co-hosted by one of the contracting parties.
  • The main objective of this workshop is to share the updated situation of piracy and armed robbery against ships in Asia and the best practices of Asian countries.
  • The workshop also aims to deepen the knowledge of participants on various issues related to piracy and armed robberies such as international laws, prosecution process, forensics, and emerging threats.

 

Source: PIB

 

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