Venturing into Defence and Military Coopera7on
• For a long 6me, security coopera6on in ASEAN and the AsiaPacific was led by foreign affairs officials
• Defence officials may afend some of the security mee6ngs.
With the rise of defence diplomacy notably since the
mid-1990s, they began to take part in some of the security
discussions, like those sponsored by ARF
• It should be noted that there was no regular mee7ng for
ASEAN defence ministers un6l 2006