Context:
Indonesia is hosting the 10th Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus (ADMM-Plus) at Jakarta in 2023 as the chair of ADMM-Plus.
About ADMM-Plus:
- ADMM – Highest defence consultative and cooperative mechanism in ASEAN.
- ADMM-Plus – A platform for the ASEAN member-states and its 8 dialogue partners collectively called as ‘Plus Countries’.
- “Plus Countries” – India, U.S., China, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand.
- India became the dialogue partner of the ASEAN in 1992.
- Meeting – 1st edition was held in Hanoi (Vietnam) in 2010 and it is held annually since 2017.
- Chairmanshipof the ADMM-Plus follows that of the ADMM and ASEAN.
- Objectives –
- To enhance regional peace and stability through cooperation in defence and security.
- To contribute to the realisation of Bali Concord II and Vientiane Action Programme.
Bali Concord II embodies ASEAN’s aspiration to achieve peace, and stability with one another and with the world at large.
Vientiane Action Programme calls for ASEAN to build a secure and prosperous ASEAN and to adopt outward-looking external relation strategies with its friends and Dialogue Partners.
- 7 Focus areas – maritime security (MS), counter-terrorism (CT), humanitarian assistance and disaster management (HADR), peacekeeping operations (PKO), military medicine (MM), humanitarian mine action (HMA) and cyber security (CS).
- Experts Working Groups (EWGs) –
- To facilitate cooperation for each of the 7 focus areas.
- Each EWGs is co-chaired by 1 ASEAN Member States and 1 Plus Country, operating in a 3-year cycle.
In the present cycle from 2021-2024, India is co-chairing EWG on HADR along with Indonesia.
Source: The Hindu
Previous Year Question
Consider the following:
1. Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
2. Missile Technology Control Regime
3. Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
India is a member of which of the above?
[UPSC Civil Services Exam – 2022 Prelims]
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 3 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Answer: (d)
