{"id":118383,"date":"2021-04-13T12:50:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T04:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118383"},"modified":"2021-04-13T12:50:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T04:50:25","slug":"malaysia-new-zealand-committed-to-defence-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118383","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia, New Zealand Committed To Defence Cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <br> KUALA LUMPUR, April 13 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Malaysia and New Zealand have reaffirmed their bilateral commitment on defence cooperation under the Five Powers Defence Arrangements (FPDA) and the ASEAN Defence Ministers\u2019 Meeting Plus (ADMM-Plus).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a statement from Defence Ministry, Defence Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob and his New Zealand counterpart, Peeni Henare held a video conference call day, which underscored the importance of bilateral defence cooperation and excellent cooperation between both countries under the FPDA and the ADMM-Plus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAlthough challenged by the current COVID-19 pandemic situation, the two Defence Ministers expressed their mutual commitments to the FPDA and the 50th Anniversary event that Malaysia will be hosting in 2021,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They also expressed their support on the resumption of active engagements in 2021 between the armed forces, including the conduct of training and bilateral exercises. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement said that both ministers also discussed the need to strengthen cooperation on cyber security between the two armed forces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apart from that, both the ministers also updated each other on the current COVID-19 pandemic situation and the implementation of the COVID-19 vaccination programme in both countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ismail Sabri also expressed his hope to meet Minister Henare in person at the 11th FPDA Defence Ministers\u2019 Meeting in Kuala Lumpur this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, April 13 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Malaysia and New Zealand have reaffirmed their bilateral commitment on defence cooperation under the Five Powers Defence Arrangements (FPDA) and the ASEAN Defence Ministers\u2019 Meeting Plus (ADMM-Plus). According to a statement from Defence Ministry, Defence Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob and his New Zealand counterpart, Peeni Henare held a video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":15338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118383"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}