China is expecting to carry out more extensive and in-depth maritime security cooperation with the navies of various countries through this ‘Galle Dialogue' so as to make due contributions to and play an active role in maintaining the peace and stability of the Indian Ocean as well as the world at large, state-run People's Daily online quoted him as saying at the conference, in which 28 countries including India, Japan, Australia, the US, the UK and France took part.
Su proposed that the countries should “actively holding bilateral and multilateral dialogues to improve strategic mutual trust, seek to establish a code of conduct for the navies from various countries to carry out maritime security cooperation under the premise of respect for each country's sovereignty and maritime interests, and gradually expand the scope of maritime security cooperation by dealing with such non-traditional security threats as maritime terrorism, natural disasters and others as the breakthrough points”.
