Australian Maritime Issues 2007 - Royal Australian Navy

126 AUSTRALIAN MARITIME ISSUES 2007: SPC-A ANNUAL
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A. Forbes, ‘International shipping: Trends and vulnerabilities’, Maritime Studies, September/
October 2003, No. 132, p. 27.
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International Maritime Organization, Revised treaties to address unlawful acts at sea adopted at
international conference, Briefing 42, 17 October 2005, accessed 21 November 2005.
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These countries are Australia’s major trading partners, so if their economies are affected by
problems in the Malacca Strait, then Australia will be similarly affected, albeit with a time
lag.
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Canadian, Singapore and Malaysia, to name but a few countries, have or are in the process
of creating such centres.
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‘Maritime Security Regulation’, Semaphore, Issue 3, Sea Power Centre – Australia, Canberra,
February 2006.
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The purpose of the WPNS is to increase naval cooperation in the Western Pacific among navies
by providing a forum for discussion of maritime issues, both global and regional, and in the
process generate a flow of information and opinion between naval professionals leading to
common understanding and possibly agreements.