India, the Maldives and Sri Lanka agreed on November 28, to enhance intelligence-sharing to tackle common threats such as terrorism, drug trafficking and money laundering as the three countries revived their maritime security cooperation dialogue after a gap of six years, reports Hindustan Times. The meeting in Colombo, attended by India’s National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval, Maldives’ Defence Minister Mariya Didi and Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary Kamal Gunaratne, also decided that working groups at the level of deputy NSAs will meet twice a year to bolster cooperation at the operational level. A joint statement issued after the dialogue said the three sides exchanged views on common security threats and “agreed to broad base cooperation by expanding the scope to improve intelligence-sharing and include issues like terrorism, radicalisation, extremism, drugs, arms and human trafficking, money laundering, cybersecurity and effect of climate change on the maritime environment”.