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Dakar, 28 Nov (APS) – Rear-Admiral Aliou Sow, Secretary General of the High Authority for the Coordination of Maritime Safety, Maritime Security and the Marine Environment (HASSMAR), reiterated the option of the State of Senegal to reinforce equipment for securing its maritime areas to "provide a credible dissuasive response to threats".
'' The State of Senegal is committed to putting in coherence a system of security of the maritime spaces, through an operational potential of the national navy with the acquisition of modern boats which can intervene in depth, so as to bring a credible and dissuasive response to potential threats, 'said the Navy officer.
Speaking Wednesday at a workshop to upgrade and strengthen the capacities of journalists and media players on these issues, Rear-Admiral Sow, notably returned the various measures taken by the State of Senegal to meet the security challenges. .
'' A multifunctional vessel, equipped with an emergency response unit on the high seas, is being acquired to deal with a wide range of threats at sea. mass in specific cases '', he listed.
He also referred to the upgrading of public infrastructure in the context of international trade.
According to him, the national strategy of safety and maritime safety validated by the government gives an important place to the effective participation of all the layers of the nation in the position of prevention, '' but also of '' promotion of volunteering to the putting in place of active partnerships ''.
He stressed that in the face of unconventional threats difficult to eradicate, '' the maritime areas do not escape this new situation because the raging increasingly unsanitary control that feeds greed as varied as varied ' .
This is reflected, he said, by the resurgence of maritime piracy, clandestine migratory flows by sea and other threats such as maritime terrorism. "The effects of globalization have exacerbated this situation in addition to technological advances, while maritime borders are very porous," he said.
The State of Senegal has taken full measure of the challenges of the sea, in particular at the geostrategic and socio-economic level, but also the challenges implied by the need to manage the sea, in a multisectoral approach in general, but also to worry about the security of the sea. maritime areas, he said.
'' For a country like ours, in the context of the discovery of offshore oil resources, a novelty, a bearer of hope, arises the problem of insecurity at sea '' he said, reminding Beyond concrete actions to secure maritime areas, awareness was essential at all levels, "security is everyone's business".
'' The establishment of a safety culture at sea means that every citizen is a sentinel develops a reflex in itself, alertness and contributes to the maintenance of public order and national cohesion '', a he argues.
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