New Delhi, June 4 -- India and the UK on Thursday launched new initiatives to enhance joint work in maritime security and critical minerals as external affairs minister S Jaishankar and his British counterpart Yvette Cooper reviewed security and economic cooperation and discussed the fallout of the West Asia conflict.

The two sides concluded a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on setting up the Regional Maritime Security Centre of Excellence, which will help Indian Ocean states to build capacity to address non-traditional maritime security threats. They also launched the India-UK Critical Minerals Global Supply Chain Observatory (GSCO) to boost cooperation in critical minerals and support the creation of resilient and secure global suppl...