An Iranian vessel was torpedoed off Sri Lankan waters in what the Mauritius Foreign Minister Dhananjay Ramful has described as an unprecedented attack in the Indian Ocean Region. Speaking on the sidelines of the Indian Ocean Conference in Mauritius, Ramful stressed the incident must not be repeated, as delegates grapple with the broader fallout of the West Asia conflict on regional energy and food security. Ramful, who met with Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on April 10, expressed hope that ongoing U.S.-Iran talks in Pakistan would yield a lasting agreement to stabilize the region.