Col. Pham Manh Thang (second from right) at the meeting (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The 14th ASEAN DefenceMinisters’ Meeting (ADMM) and the seventh ADMM Plus will be held online fromDecember 9-10.
It was unveiled by Col. Pham Manh Thang, Deputy Director ofthe Defence Ministry’s Department of External Relations, during a workingsession in Hanoi on December 2 with defence attachés of ASEAN member states, Russia,China, the US, the Republic of Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and India.
Thang stressed that the Vietnamese Defence Ministry highly valuesASEAN member states and above-mentioned countries’ close cooperation and activeparticipation that contributes to the success of the ASEAN military-defenceactivities this year, including the ADMM Retreat held in February in Hanoialong with teleconferences amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
He affirmed that that the ADMM-14 and the seventh ADMM Plusare the most important events among the regional defence-military activitieshosted by the Defence Ministry during the ASEAN Chairmanship Year 2020.
Other activities such as a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the ADMM Plus and hand-over of the ADMM and ADMM PlusChairmanship to Brunei will also be held on the occasion.
Participants at the event discussed agenda, protocol andmedia work for the ADMM-14, ADMM Plus and related activities to ensure theirsuccess./.
It was unveiled by Col. Pham Manh Thang, Deputy Director ofthe Defence Ministry’s Department of External Relations, during a workingsession in Hanoi on December 2 with defence attachés of ASEAN member states, Russia,China, the US, the Republic of Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and India.
Thang stressed that the Vietnamese Defence Ministry highly valuesASEAN member states and above-mentioned countries’ close cooperation and activeparticipation that contributes to the success of the ASEAN military-defenceactivities this year, including the ADMM Retreat held in February in Hanoialong with teleconferences amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
He affirmed that that the ADMM-14 and the seventh ADMM Plusare the most important events among the regional defence-military activitieshosted by the Defence Ministry during the ASEAN Chairmanship Year 2020.
Other activities such as a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the ADMM Plus and hand-over of the ADMM and ADMM PlusChairmanship to Brunei will also be held on the occasion.
Participants at the event discussed agenda, protocol andmedia work for the ADMM-14, ADMM Plus and related activities to ensure theirsuccess./.
VNA
