By Prashanth Parameswaran

December 4, 2015

"The international community should expand a key naval protocol amid ongoing South China Sea disputes, Malaysia's new naval chief said in the opening keynote address to a regional security forum December 1.

According to IHS Jane's, Admiral Kamarulzaman Ahmad Badaruddin, the chief of the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN), called for an expansion of the Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea (CUES) in his remarks delivered to this year's Maritime Security and Coastal Surveillance Conference, which some have billed the region's largest gathering of its kind this year. CUES is a series of protocols negotiated back in 2014 at the Western Pacific Naval Symposium for the safety of vessels meeting at sea."

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http://thediplomat.com/2015/12/malaysia-wants-expanded-naval-protocol-amid-south-china-sea-disputes/

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