Editing Indian Antarctic Programme (section)

==Global cooperation==

The Indian Antarctic Programme is bound by the rules of the [[Antarctic Treaty System]], which India signed in 1983.<ref name=Gad08/> Pandey (2007) outlines the various international activities that India has undertaken as a part of its Antarctic Programme:

{{Quotation|1=On 12 September 1983, India achieved the status of Consultative Party, on 1 October became a member of [[Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research]] (SCAR), and in 1986 became a member of the [[Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources]] (CCAMLR). In 1997 India also ratified the [[Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty]] thus reaffirming India's commitment to protecting the Antarctic environment. India hosted the eleventh [[COMNAP]]/SCALOP (Standing Committee on Antarctic Logistics and Operations) meeting in Goa in 1999, and the working group meeting on eco-system monitoring and management of CCAMLR in August 1998 at [[Cochin]]. India occupied the CCAMLR chair beginning in November 1998 for a period of 2 years.<ref name="Anas 07" />}}

India also collaborates with the international community as a member of the [[Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission]], Regional Committee of Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission in Coastal Indian Ocean (IOCINDIO), [[International Seabed Authority]] (ISBA), and the State Parties of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas (UNCLOS).<ref name=Gad08/><ref name=IAS_book_351>Pursuit and Promotion of Science – The Indian Experience (2001), 351</ref><ref name=Walawalkar05>Walawalkar (2005)</ref>