territorial waters

Muizzu’s administration also announced that it would not renew a hydrographic survey agreement with India that was signed by the previous government to map the seabed in Maldivian territorial waters.

The agency however pledged to ensure "effective safety and security of our territorial waters and ports".

In South America, the increasingly foreign presence in territorial waters is stoking nationalist worry.

But the Philippines, under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., who took office two years ago, has been pushing back more forcefully against what it calls Chinese encroachment on its territorial waters.

A Russian source later told Tass and other news agencies there were no plans to revise Russia's territorial waters in the Baltic.