Question: 20th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) – Heads of Defence Universities/ Colleges/Institutions was held at…?
a) National Defence College, New Delhi
b) Belgaum Military School
c) Dholpur Military School
d) none of the above.
Ans: (a)
Related facts:
- On 8th October, 2016 20th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) – Heads of Defence Universities/ Colleges/ Institutions meeting concluded in New Delhi.
- The meeting was held between 5-8 October, 2016 at National Defence College, New Delhi.
- The theme of this meeting was “Transformation of Military Education to meet the challenges of 21st Century.”
- Promotion and maintenance of peace and prosperity in the region and the world at large through collective efforts and counter non-conventional threats and violent terrorism in the South East Asia Region were the key issues of the meeting.
- The participating nations expressed their commitment to reinvigorate professional military education to cope up with the contemporary challenges to military leadership.
- The member states also renewed their pledge to fulfil the core objectives of ARF and enhance its relevance by preventive diplomacy in parallel with strengthening of confidence building measures through dialogue, cooperation and mutual trust.
- The next ARF meet to will be held in Manila in 2017.
Reference:
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