The NADI Retreat Meeting agreed to put forward the following recommendations to ADMM for their consideration:
Strengthen ASEAN’s centrality through the ADMM’s proactive role as the primary driving force in regional defence cooperation, including its Dialogue Partners.
Continue to work on the agreed six (6) areas of cooperation in the ADMM with emphasis on HADR and also to look into areas which need to be implemented such as cooperation on search and rescue operations.
Look into new areas of cooperation in particular the impact of environmental hazards to defence and security such as climate change and transboundary haze, cyber security, human security such as crossborder or trans-border cooperation, aviation security and biosecurity.
In view of the new areas of NTS cooperation, ADMM may wish to consider raising the number of EWGs to eight (8) so that there will be participation by all the Plus members as co-chairs in the EWGs.
Continue to look into both traditional and non-traditional security issues which are under the purview of the ADMM themselves
The ADMM should be more proactive in communicating through the media all its achievements.
Encourage the ADMM to consider NADI inputs and recommendations and suggest that they be reflected in the ADMM’s annual report or official documents.