Tuesday, September 29, 2009

ANZAC Defence Ministers meet

30 September 2009
The Minister for Defence, Hon. Dr Wayne Mapp, today met with his Australian counterpart, Senator John Faulkner, in Sydney to discuss a range of shared defence interests and security challenges.
While our two defence forces have always been close, successive deployments on combined and coalition operations have highlighted the importance of maximising our joint operational capabilities, interoperability and integration. These imperatives were reflected in the joint statement made by Australian and New Zealand Prime Ministers on 20 August 2009.
Today the Ministers agreed that . . .

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