Shangri-La Dialogue 2008

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Press Coverage 2008

01 Jun 2008 - - Bernama - Myanmar Cyclone Tragedy Acid Test For Asean's Capability In Helping Members, Says Najib Speaking at a media conference after attending the annual Asia Security Summit here, Najib said Asean would want to play a bigger role in helping Myanmar to face the tragedy, provided the country allowed it. He said Asean was willing to send more military personnel and logistics requirements such as helicopters and boats to help distribute foreign aid to the victims who remained cut off in the cyclone-stricken areas and were starving.
01 Jun 2008 - - Xinhua News - Singapore DM: int'l co-op important in disaster relief Singapore's defense minister Sunday stressed the importance of international cooperation in disaster relief. Speaking at an Asian security summit, Defense Minister Teo CheeHean noted multilateral cooperation is needed when facing multi-faceted and multi-dimensional security challenges, such as humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.
01 Jun 2008 - - Deutsche Presse-Agentur - Myanmar calls for assistance and aid with ''no strings attached Myanmar's Deputy Defence Minister Aye Myint said Sunday that assistance and aid provided with genuine goodwill from any country or organization would be welcomed providing there "are no strings attached" or politicization. In contrast to criticism from many of the 27 defence ministers and officials at a forum in Singapore over Myanmar's three-week holdup of their donations and slow pace of getting supplies to the survivors of the May 3 cyclone, Aye Myint said assistance is...
01 Jun 2008 - - Agence France Presse - Myanmar in 'state of denial' over cyclone aid--Canada MacKay was the first Canadian defense minister to attend the Shangri-La Dialogue, a move he said was "a sign of elevated interaction and presence for Canada in the Asia Pacific." Canada earlier announced that it would fly 2,000 emergency shelter kits to Bangkok for delivery to Myanmar cyclone victims.
01 Jun 2008 - - Agence France Presse - Cyclone aid must have 'no strings attached'--Myanmar Foreign aid to Myanmar's cyclone victims must have "no strings attached" and the focus is now on reconstruction, Deputy Defense Minister Aye Myint said here Sunday. "We would warmly welcome any assistance and aid which are provided with genuine goodwill from any country or organization provided that there are no strings attached, or politicization involved," he told a high-level security forum in Singapore that included representatives of donor...
01 Jun 2008 - - Reuters - Myanmar rejects criticism of junta cyclone response Speaking at a three-day security conference in Singapore, Deputy Defense Minister Aye Myint said state media had given plenty of advance warning of the May 2 cyclone, which left 134,000 dead or missing and up to 2.4 million others destitute. The major general's rare public defense came after three days of criticism of the junta's relief effort, including a rebuke from U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates who said "tens of thousands" more had died due to Myanmar's stonewalling on...

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Agenda

2008 Agenda

Plenary Sessions and Speeches

2008 Speeches

Dialogue Report 2008

The IISS has a compiled a report on the summit held in 2008 containing details of the plenary sessions and a flavour of the discussions in the breakout groups.

The Shangri-La Dialogue Report 2008 is available online.