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PANAJI
President of Forum for Integrated National security (FINS) Lt Gen (Retd) D B Shekatkar on Monday said that due to its location Goa enjoys a particular strategic importance as compared to all other locations in India.
“Many countries have an eye on Goa to make use of this strategic location to control the Indian Ocean,” Gen D B Shekatkar said after announcing the programme of a discourse on Space Partnership at Grand Hyatt from October 23 to 25.
Addressing a press conference, Lt Gen Shekatkar said, Vice president M Venkaiah Naidu will deliver the inaugural address at the discourse.
“Due to the strategic location of Goa we have chosen Goa as a location for the event”, said Lt (Gen) Shekatkar, adding that FINS is also thinking of setting up a strategic study center in Goa.
“As all countries are competing to utilize space for their benefit, a space regulatory mechanism has become a key issue today and from the perspective of the future,” said Shekatkar.
He also informed that three former ISRO chiefs - B Kiran Kumar, Dr K Radhakrishnan and Dr YVN Krishna Murti - former director of Sarabhai Space Center B N Suresh, former Israeli Ambassador to India Daniel Carmon, former Israel Atomic Energy commission chief, Shaul Chorev are some eminent personalities among others who will be delivering lectures at the event.This discourse will see deliberations by national and international delegates on outer space and the report of this discourse will be sent to the United Nations and all concerned ministries of the Indian government, informed Bal Desai, General Secretary of FINS.
Space diplomacy and regional cooperation, Regional Governance, laws of space, non-militarisation of outer space, Indian space policy, and international space cooperation are some issues which will be discussed, he added.
Lead Organiser of this discourse FINS is an apolitical think tank established in 2003 to raise, discuss and propagate issues of national security.
