The Indian Ocean Commission, through the MASE programme funded by the European Union, in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development represented by the Organe de lutte contre l'Evènement de pollution marine (O.L.E.P) organised the first MASE POLMAR 2019 exercise in Diego Suarez, Madagascar from 16 to 20 October 2019.
More than seventy participants took part in this wide-ranging and unprecedented regional exercise, which brought together representatives of the MASE agreements' signatories countries : Comoros, Djibouti, France/Reunion Island, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles and Somalia as an observer, International Liaison Officers and watchstanders from the Regional Maritime Information Fusion Centre (RMIFC) and the Regional Coordination of Operation Centre (RCOC) as well as a representative of the European Navy - EUNAVFOR.
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