April 08, 2021 | 20:02 (GMT+7)
Brunei holds ADSOM+ WG via virtual format
PANO - The ASEAN Defense Senior Officials’ Meeting Plus Working Group (ADSOM+ WG) was held on April 7 via the virtual format under the chair of Haji Adi Ihram Bin Dato Paduka Haji Mahmud, Deputy Permanent Secretary of Policy and Strategy at the Brunei Defence Ministry and Head of Brunei’s ADSOM+ WG.
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Lt. Gen. Vu Chien Thang (C) attends the event. |
The meeting witnessed the participation of heads of ADSOM+ WG of ASEAN member states, the ASEAN Secretariat, and partner countries, including Russia, China, the U.S., Japan, the Republic of Korea, Australia, New Zealand and India.
Lt. Gen. Vu Chien Thang, Director of the Department of Foreign Relations under the Vietnamese Defense Ministry, led a delegation to attend the meeting.
At the event, participants were updated on activities of the experts’ working groups (EWGs) of the 14th ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Meeting Plus (ADMM+) on humanitarian aid and disaster relief, marine security, military medicine, counter-terrorism, peacekeeping operations, humanitarian mine action and cyber security.
They also exchanged views on a joint draft statement of the eighth ADMM+ and agreed on the dates and agendas of the ASEAN Defense Senior Officials’ Meeting Plus and the eighth ADMM+.
On this occasion, the Bruneian side also provided updates on relevant activities and events within the ADMM+ framework in 2021.
Translated by Trung Thanh