The two-day meeting which will end on Saturday brings together 10 ADMN member states and eight ADMN Plus member states.
The 10 ADMN member states are Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, while the eight ADMN Plus member states are Australia, China, the United States, Japan, India, New Zealand, Russia and Korea.
The meeting will discuss developments in bilateral and multilateral relations among the countries, regional issues, counter-terrorism, disaster mitigation, and the South China Sea, among others.
ADMN is a discourse and cooperation partner in the defense and security field. Since it was set up in 2006, it has initiated defense and security cooperation in Southeast Asia.
ADMN aims to create Confidence Building Measures (CBM) among ASEAN member states. After it was established, the new term and concept of defense cooperation was introduced in ASEAN, namely defense diplomacy.
The ADMN inaugural meeting was held in Kuala Lumpur on May 9, 2006. The second ADMN was held in Singapore on November 14, 2006; the third ADMN in Pattaya on February 26-27, 2009; and the fourth ADMN in Hanoi on May 11, 2010.
ADMM also has organized retreats to exchange views informally, including those held in Bali on March 24, 2007, in Bangkok on November 3, 2009 and in Hanoi on October 11, 2010.
The Hanoi meeting was prioritized in the first meeting as ADMN-Plus which spoke of the involvement of external powers (non-ASEAN member states).
ADMN is a manifestation of the newest breakthrough in ASEAN defense establishment which emerged in the 10th ASEAN Summit held in Vientiane on November 29, 2004.
Reporting by Syaiful Hakim
Editing by Suharto, Fardah Assegaf
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