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Rear Admiral Pham Khac Luong chairs the event. |
Representatives of navies of ASEAN member states and the Lao People’s Armed Forces attended the event virtually. Meanwhile, the event in Hanoi saw the presence of defense and naval attachés of ASEAN countries to Vietnam.
In his opening remarks, Rear Admiral Pham Khac Luong said that ANTEEP was a Vietnam People’s Navy’s initiative approved at the 14th ASEAN Navy Chiefs’ Meeting (ANCM-14) hosted by the Vietnam People's Navy in November 2020.
The concept document of the ANTEEP was supplemented, finalized, and approved at the 15th ANCM organized virtually by the Royal Brunei Navy in August this year. As scheduled, ANTEEP will be held every two years, hosted in turn by ASEAN navies in the alphabetical order, starting with the Vietnam People's Navy.
The Vietnamese naval official emphasized that ANTEEP aims to create a forum for naval servicemen in charge of training to share knowledge, experience in navigation, communication, supply, search and rescue at sea, water intake control, multilateral naval exercise, assurance of logistics and technical conditions, fitness improvement, personnel training, and trust-building measures. These will help boost cooperation, cohesion, mutual understanding and trust among ASEAN navies.
At the meeting, participants focused their discussions on controlling water intake and agreed that the capability of controlling water intake is of vital importance that forces all crew-members to further practice to actively and quickly handle possible incidents and situations occurring at sea during training, combat and other task performances.
Participants also stressed that crew-members need to master assigned equipment and get used to operation steps, exert all-out efforts with high intensity, be smart and flexible and have good fitness.
Concluding the event, Rear Admiral Pham Khac Luong spoke highly of representatives of ASEAN navies’ presentations and their useful, practical comments. He believed that what has been shared at the event will be good lessons for ASEAN navies to apply to their training in the field of controlling water intake.
Translated by Mai Huong