On the 9th of August, the United Nations (UN) Security Council held a high-level open debate on maritime security, chaired by the prime minister of India, Narendra Modi, and attended by the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and the president of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta. The debate was one of the priorities of the Indian presidency of the Council and took place in the context of increasing urgency at the Council toward issues such as piracy, maritime terrorism, and other incidents at sea.