Minister of Naitonal Defence General Phung Quang Thanh is leading a
Vietnamese delegation to attend the 7th ASEAN Defence Ministerial
Meeting (ADMM-7), which is slated to take place in Brunei from May
6-8.
Issues under spotlight at the 7th ADMM
include the recent development of ASEAN and security and defence
situation in the region.
The meeting will work
on the establishment of a defence exchange programme, a logistics
assistance framework and a working group on humanitarian mine action.
The delegates are expected to adopt a join statement
on the meeting’s theme of “Securing our people, our future together”.
Furthermore, the meeting will be updated on a H
umanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief/Military Medicine (HADR/MM) exercise under the framework of ADMM Plus which is
scheduled to take place in Brunei from June 16 to 20.-VNA