Southeast Asia to discuss defense<\/p>\n
HANOI (Reuter): Thai Defense Minister, Gen. Chavalit
\nYongchaiyudh, said yesterday that Thailand and Vietnam would
\ndiscuss proposals for a NATO-style regional defense bloc with
\nother countries at a military conference this March.<\/p>\n
Chavalit told a news conference in Hanoi that Southeast Asia
\nneeded a defense grouping to promote stability. "We would like to
\ndiscuss measures or an organization to solve all disputes in the
\nregion," he said.<\/p>\n
"Of course we don't expect any disputes in the region but if
\nthere are, we should have an organization to solve them. An
\nexample for that is NATO, in Europe, which is the organization to
\nsolve all such kind of disputes or disagreements," he added.<\/p>\n
Chavalit, on a two-day visit to Vietnam, said Southeast Asian
\nstates would be represented at the meeting in Thailand, along
\nwith countries who are members of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF),
\nofficially billed as a multilateral consultative forum promoting
\nsecurity in the Asia-Pacific Region.<\/p>",
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