US DEFENDS ITS NAVY OPERATION CONDUCTED IN INDIA'S EEZ

Highlights

• Kirby said the USS John Paul Jones had asserted navigational rights and freedoms in the vicinity of the Republic of Maldives by conducting Innocent passage through its territorial sea

• Immediately after the US Navy conducted operations in. India’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) without prior consent, India had conveyed its concerns to the United States

Defending the freedom of navigati....