In 2007 India held the first Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS) with an objective to provide a forum for all the littoral nations of the Indian Ocean to co-operate on mutually agreed areas for better security in the region.[258][259] Since the past decade, Indian naval ships have made goodwill port calls to Israel,[260][261] Turkey,[262] Egypt,[263] Greece,[264] Thailand,[265] Indonesia,[266] Australia,[267] New Zealand,[268] Tonga,[269] South Africa,[270] Kenya,[271] Qatar,[272] Oman,[273] United Arab Emirates,[274] Bahrain,[275] Kuwait,[276] and various other countries.