FULLERTON HOTEL, SINGAPORE, 27 January 2015 - The Acting Deputy Commander of the Royal Brunei Armed Forces (RBAF), First Admiral Dato Seri Pahlawan Abdul Aziz bin Haji Mohd Tamit attended the third series of the Fullerton Forum: The Shangri-La Dialogue Sherpa Meeting in Singapore on 25 – 27 January 2015. The Fullerton Forum was organised by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in support and preparation of the Shangri-La Dialogue process.
During the opening of the meeting, the Defence Minister of the Republic of Singapore, Dr Ng Eng Hen, addressed the attendees of this year’s forum with a keynote. In his speech, he encouraged the Fullerton Forum to focus on to address challenges and he suggested few notions such as; to improve multilateralism to enhance regional security; to focus on practical measures to tackle the HADR security challenges and to deliver concrete outcomes; and to enhance collective efforts to build real capacity to respond to challenges quickly and effectively.
Joining the Acting Deputy Commander RBAF to the Fullerton Forum, the Deputy Permanent Secretary Policy and Development Ministry of Defence, Awang Abu Sufian bin Haji Ali and the Head of Research, Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Ministry of Defence, Ampuan Yura Kasumawati binti Adnan.
The forum is an avenue for the participants to express a wide range of opinions on various topics related to the key regional security concerns. More than 60 senior defence and government officials including non-governmental experts from universities, think tanks, the media and the private sector from the Asia Pacific countries participated in the forum.
The IISS Fullerton Forum: The Shangri-La Dialogue Sherpa Meeting forms part of an enhanced Shangri-La Dialogue process intended to help ensure that the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue remains at the forefront of defence diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific region, where the policy ideas expressed at each Shangri-La Dialogue are fully examined as part of the growing IISS research programme on Asia-Pacific security.
During the forum, the Acting Deputy Commander of the Royal Brunei Armed Forces also had a bilateral meeting with the Chief of Staff, Joint Staff, Joint Operations Planning Directorate, Ministry of Defence Republic of Singapore. The Deputy Permanent Secretary Policy and Development also had a bilateral call with Deputy Seretary (Policy) Ministry of Defence Singapore, Mr. Keith Tan Kean Loong.