Maritime Domain Awareness and Ship Profiling.pdf - ASEAN Regional ...

Security Response
• In Malaysia’s view, an assertion underpinning in
security response is that legitimate commerce,
criminals, pirates and armed robbers as well as
international terrorist organizations, all use the
maritime environment for either the movement of
goods, people, money or reach their political goals.
• Malaysia has an obvious interest in protecting freedom
of movement for the first group of users, prosecuting
the second, and defeating the third.
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