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By Prashanth Parameswaran
ASEAN states and dialogue partners to participate in two-day meeting.
Malaysia will host an international conference next January focused on forging a regional response to combating terrorism amid a rising Islamic State threat, the country’s deputy prime minister confirmed last week.
At a press conference following a special regional meeting on radicalization and extremism held in Kuala Lumpur, Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, who is also home minister, said that Malaysia would host a conference on deradicalization in the ASEAN region on January 25 and 26 next year.
“Malaysia will be hosting a conference on deradicalization in the ASEAN region on January 25 and 26 next year,” Zahid said last Friday.
The conference participants, Zahid said, would include the 10 ASEAN countries as well as the organization’s eight dialogue partners – the United States, China, South Korea, Japan, India, Australia, New Zealand and Russia.
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