India, Malaysia to co-chair ADMM-Plus meeting of experts working group on counter-terrorism

Key Highlights

• The ADMM-Plus serves as a platform for practical cooperation among the participating countries’ defence establishments.
• It currently focuses on seven areas of practical cooperation namely maritime security, counter-terrorism, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, peacekeeping operations, military medicine, humanitarian mine action and cyber security, the officials said.
• The EWGs have been established to facilitate cooperation in these seven areas, they added.
• “The meeting of 16th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM)-Plus Experts Working Group (EWG) on Counter Terrorism (CT) and Final Planning Conference for Table Top Exercise is scheduled to be held in New Delhi from January 14 -16,” the defence ministry said in a statement.
• This will be the third meeting for the ongoing cycle from 2024-2027.