U.S. defends its actions saying they were in compliance with international laws.
India said on Friday it has protested the U.S. decision to conduct a patrol in the Indian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the western Indian Ocean, rejecting the U.S.’s claim that its domestic maritime law was in violation of international law.
Defending its actions, the Pentagon said it was in compliance with the international law. I can tell you that the
USS John Paul Jones, a Navy destroyer, asserted navigational rights and freedoms in the vicinity of the Republic of the Maldives by conducting innocent passage through its territorial sea in normal operations within its exclusive economic zone without requesting prior permission, Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby told reporters on Friday.
In rare move, US says it conducted Freedom of Navigation Operation in Indian waters
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