Updated: 5th November, 2012
PHNOM PENH
(Xinhua) - Defense ministers from members of the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will gather in Cambodia's Siem Reap
province on November 15-17 to exchange views on national defense and
regional security issues, a press release from the Ministry of Defense
said Monday.
ASEAN Defense Ministers' Meeting (ADMM) Retreat is organized after
the 6th ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting (ADMM) on May 28-30 in Phnom
Penh, the press release said.
There will be a presentation by Cambodia about the country's
initiative on the ASEAN Civil War Free Zone, and another presentation by
Brunei on the first-ever multilateral military exercise under the ASEAN
Defense Ministers' Meeting-Plus (ADMM- Plus) on the Humanitarian
Assistance and Disaster Relief and Military Medicine.
Lt Gen Nem Sowath, director general of the Cambodian Defense
Ministry's Policy and Foreign Affairs Department, said in a press
briefing on Monday that at the upcoming retreat, Cambodia will hand over
the role as the chair of ADMM to Brunei's Defense Ministry, which will
host such meeting in 2013.
Founded in 1967, ASEAN groups the ten members of Brunei, Cambodia,
Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand
and Vietnam.
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