Union Civil Aviation Minister Shri Vayalar Ravi has underlined the need of joint pooling of resources by the countries of Asia Pacific Region to develop a formidable wall of protection against terrorism and unlawful interference in Air transport system. Inaugurating the 8th Steering Committee Meeting (SCM) of cooperative Aviation Security Programme-Asia Pacific (CASP-AP) here today, he said this entire region has had a history of political turbulence in some form or the other for the last few decades, though there are exceptions too. Shri Ravi said these disturbances have affected our socio-political fabric and impacted our public services, including civil aviation as well. He said we are thus exposed to a fragile environment as far as security is concerned.
The Union Civil Aviation Minister said, “I think there is an element of indivisibility in security. The entire system has to be integrated in a manner that no weak link is left anywhere for a criminal or a terrorist to attack. Security cannot be dealt in fragments. If any nation is unable to adopt a foolproof system of civil aviation security, the entire region would become fragile”.
The Minister said the varying stages of economic development of the countries in this region have an impact on the adoption of technologies and systems. Best technologies come with a heavy financial burden. He said as most of the economies in this region are still developing, the states find it difficult to adopt expensive technologies. This leads to wide variations in defense systems and an utter lack of uniformity across states making us vulnerable.
14/06/11 Press Information Bureau
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