NEW DELHI:
India has received a proposal from Sri Lanka for "coordinated patrolling" of their maritime waters, but no decision has been taken on the issue, highly placed Government sources told The Hindu on Wednesday.
Making a clear distinction between "coordinated patrolling" and "joint patrolling," the sources stated that the proposal was only for patrolling that would be coordinated in advance. There was no proposal for the two navies to patrol the seas together, they added.
Sri Lanka has been pushing the idea of "joint patrolling" with the Indian Navy for quite some time now. New Delhi had rejected it during the November 2006 visit of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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