Yesterday, Malta hosted the first ever Malta hosts the first Global Forum Maritime Fusion Centres Heads of Centre Meeting at the Grand Hotel Excelsior in Valletta. The meeting brought together head of maritime monitoring centres and was organised in collaboration with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ( UNODC).
The meeting comes following the setting up of an international maritime monitoring centre in Malta under the auspices of the United Nations. The Global Centre for Maritime Sanctions Monitoring was set up last year. Ambassadors, naval officers and government officials gathered for the meeting to discuss and share best practices on addressing sanctions evasion, illicit trafficking, dark shipping, and risks to critical undersea infrastructure.
In a statement issued yesterday, the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Ian Borg said that “As an island nation, Malta is acutely aware of the strategic importance of the sea. Our security and prosperity depend on effective maritime governance. This is why we have consistently invested in maritime domain awareness, sanctions enforcement, and multilateral cooperation” .
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