Vietnam attends ASEAN air chiefs conference
(VOV) - A Vietnamese delegation led by Air Defence-Air Force Commander Lieutenant General Phuong Minh Hoa is joining the 10th ASEAN Air Chiefs Conference in Vientiane, Laos on November 2-4.
Vietnam’s Air Defence-Air Force Service is always aware that the best way to maintain peace and stability is to strengthen cooperation in building trust and reinforce national unity, Hoa said.
Over the past years, the service has worked with the Lao, Cambodian, Thai, Singaporean, Malaysian and Philippine counterparts on delegation exchanges, education-training experience sharing, technical equipment use, and search and rescue activities, thus helping ensure security in ASEAN.
On the theme “Partners for Peace and Development”, the three-day conference aims to promote mutual understanding and trust among ASEAN air forces to enhance cooperation in dealing with all challenges, for the common peace, development and in interests of the grouping towards the formation of an ASEAN Community by 2015.
Participant discussed cooperation among ASEAN member countries’ air forces in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, as well as the possible establishment of Standard Operating Procedures of the ASEAN Air Forces Cooperation in this field.
They are scheduled to adopt Malaysia’s initiative on the Term of Reference of the ASEAN Air Forces Education and Training Working Group, which was touched upon at the previous conference.