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Mumbai: Taking a dig at China, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that “some irresponsible nations” with their narrow partisan interests and supremacist tendencies are coming up with wrong definitions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
After commissioning the Indian Navy destroyer Visakhapatnam here, Singh said it was a matter of concern that UNCLOS was being repeatedly undermined by some countries with arbitrary interpretation of its definition.
“Some irresponsible nations, with their narrow partisan interests, supremacist tendencies, are coming up with wrong definitions of international law,” Singh said.
The indigenously built stealth guided missile destroyer Visakhapatnam, loaded with an array of missiles and anti-submarine rockets, was commissioned in the presence of top naval commanders.
Officials said Visakhapatnam is well equipped with lethal weapons and sensors, including surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles, medium and short-range guns, anti-submarine rockets and advanced electronic warfare and communications suits.
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