Kuala lumpur: General Nguyen Tan Cuong, Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army, is attending the 22nd ASEAN Chiefs of Defence Forces Meeting (ACDFM-22), which was opened in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on September 10. The meeting is focusing on reinforcing regional solidarity and defence cooperation.

According to Vietnam News Agency, the three-day meeting, held under the theme ‘ASEAN Unity for Security and Prosperity’, aims to build ASEAN into a resilient and proactive community capable of addressing common security challenges. Timor-Leste’s participation as an observer marked an important step toward the status as ASEAN’s 11th member.