MOSCOW. Aug 7 (Interfax) - A command-post exercise of ASEAN and ASEAN Defense Ministers' Meeting Plus (ADMM-Plus) dialogue partners has concluded in Myanmar, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
"Based on physical and geographic conditions, ASEAN members and dialogue partners have for the first time discussed modern techniques of using aircraft including unmanned aerial vehicles, intelligence, and electronic countermeasures in the fight against terrorism. Every proposal made by the military delegations was taken into account to elaborate a unified approach to methods of fighting international terrorists," the ministry said.
The completed command-post exercise "is a prologue to an antiterrorism exercise with ADMM-Plus contingents that will be hosted by Russia's Primorye Territory in September this year," it said.
"All countries participating in the exercise had an opportunity to contribute to the planning group's work by drafting and submitting their proposals on the operation, composition and procedure for using their military contingents," Russian military delegation head Mikhail Nosulev said.
"The active work of representatives of India, Indonesia and Malaysia deserves special mention for the interesting proposals and opinions [they] expressed during the exercise. This is the first time Myanmar has hosted an international command-post exercise on such a scale, but it managed to prepare the centers and groups well, and to ensure that the work of the operational headquarters was well-coordinated overall," the ministry quoted Nosulev as saying.
Teams of officers from the General Staff, the Eastern Military District and the Pacific Fleet represented Russia during the exercise. Nosulev, the deputy commander of the Eastern Military District, led the Russian delegation. The exercise also involved representatives from the defense ministries of Brunei, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Cambodia, China, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and the Philippines, the ministry said.
Established in April 2010 at Vietnam's initiative, the ADMM-Plus is a mechanism for interaction between the defense agencies of ten ASEAN countries and the dialogue partner states - Australia, India, China, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea, Russia, the United States, and Japan.
ADMM-Plus specialists operate within seven working expert groups, including those on humanitarian demining, humanitarian assistance and emergency response, military medicine, ensuring maritime security, antiterrorism, peacekeeping operations, and cybersecurity.