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GS PAPER III: Security challenges and their management in border areas - linkages of organized crime with terrorism.
Context: The US Navy announced its 7th Fleet had "asserted navigational rights and freedoms inside India’s exclusive economic zone, without requesting India’s prior consent".
US stands
India’s stand:
What is FONOP?
7TH FLEET: It is the largest of the US Navy’s forward deployed fleets. India had a close encounter with the 7th fleet during the 1971 war with Pakistan.
EEZ: According to UNCLOS, the EEZ “is an area beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea, subject to the specific legal regime” under which “the rights and jurisdiction of the coastal State and the rights and freedoms of other States are governed by the relevant provisions of this Convention.
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