LIVESTREAM: Dialogue on ASEAN Maritime Security in Manila, Day 1

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Bookmark this page to catch the opening dinner, with National Security Adviser Secretary Eduardo Año as keynote speaker

MANILA, Philippines – Manila is playing host to the 2025 Dialogue on ASEAN Maritime Security from Wednesday to Friday, May 21 to 23.

The event “brings together Southeast Asia’s foreign policy specialists, subject-matter experts, government officials, and next-generation leaders to probe opportunities for and obstacles to collective efforts on advancing a free, open, secure, and rules-based maritime order in the region.”

According to organizers, the dialogue is meant to “identify ways [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] members can work together to overcome issues that hinder cooperation on issues of shared concern, to re-converge each other’s interests in a rules-based regional order, and to reinforce efforts that identify, deter, and defeat the sources of instability and insecurity in Southeast Asian waters.”

Bookmark this page to catch Day 1 of the dialogue, which will feature a keynote address from Philippine National Security Adviser Secretary Eduardo Año as well as a fireside chat with Philippine Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Ronnie Gil Gavan, Indonesian Advisor to the Minister on Political, Legal and Security Affairs Adam Tugio, and Malaysia’s Deputy Director-General of National Security
Hamzah bin Ishak.

Watch the live on Wednesday, at 7 pm. – Rappler.com