The India Foundation director Alok Bansal said that International laws are not followed on the China Sea.
He told the ANI that "A code of conduct was made which talked about how the countries will behave with each other which is very important,"
"The whole emphasis was of the conference was on connectivity, greater cooperation, greater institutional interaction, and networking. And I think with such thoughts, the conference was pretty successful," Ret. General V.P. Malik told ANI at the event.
"Oceans have now become highways and unless there is a movement possible. If the movements are restricted we will not achieve the objective of peace progress and prospects," he said.
Earlier, Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MP Baijayant 'Jay' Panda stated that India's role is to help the idea of biennial and stable security and economic construction in Indian Ocean region. Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) National General Secretary Ram Madhav, had stated, at the Indian Ocean Conference, "Where China claimed to be not against freedom of navigation, other nations raised their concerns on the issue of freedom of navigation in China Sea."
While Foreign Secretary Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar addressing the second Indian Ocean Conference here, on Friday, said that the Indian Ocean must be approached with empathy, not as a business.
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