BEIJING, Oct. 13 -- The Chinese PLA Army will send troops to Yogyakarta, Indonesia, to participate in the live exercises held by the Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) Experts’ Working Group (EWG) of the ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Meeting-Plus (ADMM-Plus) from October 14 to 21, according to Defense Spokesperson Senior Colonel Zhang Xiaogang, at a press conference on Friday afternoon. The exercise will be organized in the form of mixed teams, and will mainly carry out table-top and live exercises on humanitarian relief and disaster reduction in the context of major natural disasters, and conduct academic discussions and exchanges in related fields.
Defense Spokesperson Senior Colonel Zhang added that since the beginning of this year, the Chinese military has actively implemented the Global Security Initiative, participated in the ADMM-Plus EWG on Humanitarian Mine Action (HMA), peacekeeping and counter-terrorism live exercises, as well as the HADR exercise of Cobra Gold 2023, continuously deepening the pragmatic cooperation under the ADMM-Plus mechanism, and keeping reinforcing the capabilities to cope with security threats and jointly maintain regional peace and stability.