Asia-Pacific: Military Conference: Cooperation Needed to Combat Non-Traditional Risks
Sep 15, 2014
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Dhaka Tribune
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Top-level land forces military officials yesterday sought cooperation from different nations for combating non-traditional threats and challenges, saying no single nation now was able to tackle the contemporary threats alone.
“We are now facing the kinds of threats that transcend the geographical borders. Famine, disease, natural disasters, illegal drug cartels, child and women traffickers, trans-national terrorist organisations and the like do not respect national borders; they affect us all,” General Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan, chief of army staff at Bangladesh Army, said.Top-level land forces military officials yesterday sought cooperation from different nations for combating non-traditional threats and challenges, saying no single nation now was able to tackle the contemporary threats alone.
“We are now facing the kinds of threats that transcend the geographical borders. Famine, disease, natural disasters, illegal drug cartels, child and women traffickers, trans-national terrorist organisations and the like do not respect national borders; they affect us all,” General Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan, chief of army staff at Bangladesh Army, said.
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