Goa Maritime Symposium 2024:
The Indian Navy is hosting the fifth edition of the Goa Maritime Symposium at Naval War College, Goa.
- Goa Maritime Symposium 2024 is a forum for fostering collaborative thinking, cooperation, and mutual understanding between India and key maritime nations of the Indian Ocean Region
- The theme for the event is Common Maritime Security Challenges in the Indian Ocean Region: Progressing Lines of Efforts to Mitigate Dynamic Threats such as illegal and unregulated fishing and other illegal maritime activities.
- It will be participated by the representatives from 12 Indian Ocean Littoral countries- Bangladesh, Comoros, Indonesia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Myanmar, Seychelles, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Observers from Kenya and Tanzania
Goa Maritime Symposium (GMS)
- It was conceptualised and instituted by the Indian Navy in 2016.