Maritime
Expanding
collaborative
efforts to
promote
maritime
security
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The course is organized by IMO and Saudi Arabia under the auspices of the Jeddah Amendment to
Djibouti Code of Conduct and conducted by experts from the Saudi Arabia Border Guard, UNODC,
INTERPOL and IMO.
M
embers of three key regional maritime
security agreements*, which IMO has helped
to establish, are undergoing training tackling
maritime crime in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (10 -
28 March 2019).
Thirty participants from 24 countries** are
learning theoretical and practical skills to deal with piracy/
robbery against ships, drug trafficking, marine terrorism,
weapons smuggling, human trafficking and more.
The course is organized by IMO and Saudi Arabia under
the auspices of the Jeddah Amendment to Djibouti Code of
Conduct and conducted by experts from the Saudi Arabia
Border Guard, UNODC, INTERPOL and IMO.
The training is taking place at the Mohammed Bin Naif
Academy for Maritime Science and Security Studies and is the
18
first of three training workshops to be organized by IMO and
the Saudi Border Guard in Jeddah during 2019 – with financial
assistance from Saudi Arabia.
The series of workshops will enable participants from
different regions to share ideas and best practices in order to
promote maritime security.
* The Djibouti Code of Conduct; the West and Central Africa
Code of conduct; and the Regional Cooperation Agreement
on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia
(ReCAAP)
** Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, India,
Jordan, Kenya, Madagascar, Maldives, Mauritius, Mozambique,
Myanmar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Somalia, South
Africa, the Sudan, Cape Verde, Sri Lanka, United Republic of
Tanzania and Yemen
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