VietNamNet/VNE
VietNamNet Bridge – Minister of Defense Phung Quang Thanh talked with the media about the results of the recent ASEAN Defense Minister’s Meeting in Thailand and looked ahead to Vietnam’s pending chairmanship. “Maintaining ASEAN unity is critical to our defense,” he said.
[Viet] Defence Minister Phung Quang Thanh.Q: What do the ASEAN countries think regional security? [ASEAN is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, a ten nation grouping that includes Vietnam].
Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh: We Ministers of Defense met three times and agreed that the development of the ASEAN community should rest on three pillars: politics-security, economics and culture. The group’s regional security faces both traditional challenges (wars and armed conflicts) and non-traditional challenges that no single country can solve without the help of other member states and other friendly nations.
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